Paleo Diet

[ChrisBD]

Are there any members with experience of the paleo diet; in particular from a sporting / athlete's perspective?

 

[jimboalee]

The 'Paleo' diet, to my understanding, includes fruit and vegetables that are in harvest. Traditional Paleo dieters will insist they are 'self setted / wild', not cultivated and prepared for Tesco's shelf.

It also includes oats, the grass that still grows wild and can be gathered and stewed without grinding. Tastes awful without Honey. Yup, honey is on the Paleo, cus it can be stolen from a bee's nest.

There are lots of herbs, roots, fungi and leafs that are included.


Its not all meat.

 

[ASC1951]

There is a book on it. Dozens, in fact - here is one http://www.amazon.co...90/?tag=cycling Interestingly
<<The book sets out to explain how even top level athletes can benefit from natural eating.Whilst not strictly adhering to everything Paleo, they are prepared to bend the rules slightly to optimise the athletes before, during and straight after training needs.>>

Plus lots of barking mad US websites. Here is a big list http://paleodiet.com/

Much of this stuff is based on misty-eyed romanticism and abysmal ignorance about anthropolgy. E.g.
<< It is argued that until the Paleolithic era came to an end and Neolithic and modern era foods were introduced by agriculture and industry virtually none of today’s chronic diseases existed.Coronary heart disease, type-two diabetes, hypertension, obesity, colon, breast and prostate cancer were not the killers they are today. Being eaten by a woolly mammoth was probably the number one back in those days.>>
Evidence? You could fit all the paleolithic skeletons ever found into a medium-sized room, with most of them just fragments. And mammoths were vegetarian, As Any Fule Kno.

 

[jimboalee]

There is a book on it. Dozens, in fact - here is one http://www.amazon.co...90/?tag=cycling Interestingly
<<The book sets out to explain how even top level athletes can benefit from natural eating.Whilst not strictly adhering to everything Paleo, they are prepared to bend the rules slightly to optimise the athletes before, during and straight after training needs.>>

Plus lots of barking mad US websites. Here is a big list http://paleodiet.com/

Much of this stuff is based on misty-eyed romanticism and abysmal ignorance about anthropolgy. E.g.
<< It is argued that until the Paleolithic era came to an end and Neolithic and modern era foods were introduced by agriculture and industry virtually none of today’s chronic diseases existed.Coronary heart disease, type-two diabetes, hypertension, obesity, colon, breast and prostate cancer were not the killers they are today. Being eaten by a woolly mammoth was probably the number one back in those days.>>
Evidence? You could fit all the paleolithic skeletons ever found into a medium-sized room, with most of them just fragments. And mammoths were vegetarian, As Any Fule Kno.

Nice one.

Nah, being accidentally crushed by a Wooly Mammoth while sticking a spear down its earhole.

There are not many Paleo skeletons around, because the dead were burned ( cremated ). Avoids spread of illness. they must have thought cancer was contagiuos.