What Is Paleo: The Biggest Shake Up of The Diet Industry in 40 Years

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 26, 2011 -- What is Paleo? Well first lets look at the bigger picture...

There is something seriously wrong with the modern diet, obesity and it's associated diseases are at Pandemic levels. Two governmental reports into the matter, the House of Commons Select Committee report and the Foresight Report concluded the cause of obesity to be Gluttony & Sloth (Overeating and Laziness).

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What Is Paleo: The Biggest Shake Up of The Diet Industry in 40 Years

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As a result current official advice to resolve the issue is simply a matter of reversing the equation i.e. reduce calories and exercise more. Is this right? Has it worked for you? Has it ever worked? Well with obesity, heart disease, cancer plus many more on the increase one has to assume not.

You see it takes an extreme amount of effort for this method to work, much more than the average 'joe' has that's for sure. To eat less and do more just doesn't equate, this is simply because when you do more it increases your appetite and makes you hungry. As you will learn willpower doesn't stand a chance due to the power of a chemical called Ghrelin (the hunger hormone)which gets produced in ever increasing amounts until you give in and feast. OK more on this later but for now let's move on a little further and look at what else is going on.

There is growing scientific and biological evidence to suggest this current advice (eat less and exercise more) is not just wrong but leads to worsening symptoms, actually making the problem much worse, in addition that it not only makes us gain more weight, but makes us sick too.

Yes you've heard it all before a thousand and one times, choose 5-a-day, low-fat, low cholesterol, low calorie, whole grain. Eat these type of foods in smaller quantities and exercise more to lose weight and be healthy.

These are the core principles of a healthy diet, being commonly accepted by almost all, this is what is known as Conventional Wisdom.

On the back of this we've had quick fix pills , Atkins, Hollywood, Weight Watchers, Slimming World and Dukan, Dash, HCG to name but a few. All of which are short-term temporary solutions, which means once you stop doing as instructed by a particular program, you will almost certainly put all the weight back on and likely more. These of course are what are known as 'fad' or 'yo-yo' diets due to their unsustainable nature and cycle of weight loss/weight gain. They actively disrupt the bodies metabolism, which is perhaps not the best route when we are focusing on our health.

“One of the unintended consequences of decades of terrible health advice (eat low fat foods, avoid red meat and saturated fat, do endless cardio on machines while indoors) is that being healthy becomes miserable drudgery. Good health and diet should be joyous and life-affirming. If it isn’t we’re doing it wrong” - J Stanton Gnolls

What is needed is a simple, sustainable, easy to understand solution...one that school children can follow and understand. One that stays with you for the rest of your life and doesn't require periodic renewal of memberships or revisits to clinics.

It is not our intention to point the finger of blame at anyone for the current situation in which we find ourselves. Further reading on this and the historic events that led to the present day situation can be found in the book Why we get fat (and what to do about it) by Gary Taubes, or if you prefer by watching the video below:

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If we look at the biological evidence, we find that the single biggest cause of obesity is in fact due to chemical imbalance within the body, causing production of key hormones to be disrupted. Therefore stabilisation of this hormonal imbalance is where we will find the real solution.

So why should this happen? Why are so many people affected? Why are we getting fatter? Why are we getting sicker?

If you look at the rising numbers of overweight and obese people today and the volume of autoimmune and degenerative disease, Metabolic Syndrome, Cancer, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Depression, Arteriosclerosis, Nephritis, Asthma, GERD, Osteoporosis, Stroke. What you will find is a close correlation with high carbohydrate intake, in particular refined carbohydrates and sugar contained in processed foods which make up a significant proportion of the western diet.

Why is this so? This is the body's response to foods it does not recognise and thus is unable to process in the manner it was designed. We have evolved on a diet high in natural fats, protein with moderate fibrous carbohydrate, increasing seasonally with the availability fruits, you will all be familiar with the term 'fattening up for winter'.

Never in our history have we been exposed to the level of carbohydrate we are today, never in our history have we been in such poor health.

What makes us fat?

Our bodies like to operate with stable blood sugar (glucose) and maintain temporary energy stores in our cells, liver and muscles for instant access should we need it. These stores get used up with moderate activity or exercise. When this happens, fat is released from the fat cells to be used as energy. Consuming processed foods, HFCS, sugar, starchy vegetables and grains causes blood sugar to spike and high levels of insulin to flood the system in order to stabilise rising blood sugar. Fat normally used for energy when our temporary energy stores are depleted is now locked away due to high insulin levels.

In short refined carbohydrates create an excess of glucose, far more than our temporary stores (muscles and cells) can take or use. High blood sugar is toxic and so it is insulin's job to get rid of it, the only place left is our fat cells where it is delivered via the liver and converted to triglyceride's to allow this to happen. Regular exposure to high carbohydrate loading will result in the condition known as insulin intolerance (Type II Diabetes).

But why does the body not recognise these foods as food? Why do they not satisfy our appetite? The fact is that when digested all carbohydrate is transformed into glucose (blood sugar). The rate at which this happens is what is important as it has a direct impact on the level of insulin production. Remember fat cannot be used as energy in the presence of insulin. And insulin is caused to be present in response to eating foods that are high in carbohydrate (refined carbohydrates) which convert easily and quickly into blood sugar.

If you consider our exposure to sugar, fructose, sucrose, dextrose in our diet and compare this to what our ancestors ate, you will notice a huge difference. If you gave a caveman a Mars Bar do you think he would recognise it as food? Then neither should you!

Our ancestors matured fast to adulthood and independence, lived healthy active lives then died. By contrast increasing modern societies spend ages maturing (some much longer than others, some never getting there), live a life of dubious health and well-being and then spend ages getting old and dying.

You Choose...

So how do we really resolve the obesity issue?

What's needed is another radical shift, only this time in the opposite direction. A diet aligned to and similar in principle to that on which we have evolved, a natural diet of nutritionally dense foods.

In the mean time and to this end, based on Palaeolithic dietary principles we have created The Paleoworks Challenge, developed using nutritional experts, proven science fact, and evidence dating back over 2 million years into our prehistory. This is a series of programs aimed at education, advice and support to enable you to live life as nature intended.

Lean, Fit, Long, Rewarding and Fulfilling.

The following is an interview with Doctor Frank Comstock:

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This is the food we were genetically designed to eat. This is evolutionary nutrition. When you eat this way, body fat is maintained at normal levels without even having to watch what you eat. You eat when you are hungry and because you're eating real foods, your body is able to tell you when you've had enough and to process it without any fuss.

However as we have learned so far, this is much more than just a diet. It is a sustainable lifestyle.

A move away from Sugar, HFCS , starchy vegetables, grains & legumes means you will be leaner, fitter, faster, stronger, look younger, have more stamina, in short your general health and well being will be at a level you previously thought impossible.

And finally:

"In the end, we subscribe to perhaps the most Conventional Wisdom of all – the time tested, naturally selected wisdom spanning hundreds of thousands of years, the wisdom, founded in the incontrovertible facts of evolutionary biology, that guided our ancestors. We may not ever change the minds of society at large, but we can make the small – or big – changes in our own lives that will ensure health, longevity, and wellness" - Mark Sissons.

You now know at least the basics and the reason behind what is without question...

The World's Healthiest Diet.

The End.



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