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Originally Posted by senior citizen
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The graphic in your link claims that the Paleo diet is more balanced. It's supposed to contain 30% protein, 40% carbohydrate, and 30% fat. I don't know how cavemen and cavewomen accomplished that without nutrition labels.
They didn't have vegetable oil or olive oil so most of their fat came from eating meat, fish and poultry. If their diet was 30% protein, mostly coming from animals, how did they achieve 30% fat, especially when wild game is extremely lean. You could say they got it from eggs, but they would not have had a steady supply without agriculture. So the breakdown of 30%, 40%, 30% doesn't make sense to me.
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Anyone gone Paleo? The graphics are fun to look at. Click link and keep scrolling down.
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Yes, back around 2005 I bought the book, "The Paleo Diet" and gave it a try for about 2 or 3 months. I was in good health before I started it and I continued to be in good health during the few months that I tried it. I also maintained my ideal weight.....there was no change in my weight during that time. It was around that time that I discovered the "China Study" and the cancer prevention benefits of eating a vegan diet. So I became a vegan.
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Why go Paleo? Lots of positive comments below the "paleo infographic"......
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If you keep reading the comments you will eventually come across a lot of negative comments too. Here are some of my own:
Fiber: There's a good book titled, "The Fiber35 diet" and it claims you should get 35 grams of fiber per day in order to achieve optimum health. But there's no way you will get anywhere near that much fiber with the Paleo diet because animal protein does not contain fiber. You'd be lucky to get 25 or 30 grams of fiber with a vegan diet. The average American loves animal protein, and animal protein displaces plant foods, so the average American only gets about 12 to 15 grams of fiber per day. The Paleo diet does not solve that problem, so that is a negative.
Carbs How did cave dwellers get 40% of their diet to consist of carbs without grains, baked goods etc.? And since when would they have a steady supply of potatoes without agriculture? All plants contain some carbohydrate, but to get 40% they would have had to eat a tremendous amount of leaves and roots. Who among us is willing to get most of their carbs by eating a large amount leafy-green vegetables? And you would need to do that in order to get enough calcium without dairy.
The quality of animal protein: Let's face it, most people who try the Paleo diet are not going to get the same quality of animal protein that cave dwellers got. Wild animals pick and choose what to eat from a wide variety of plants. So lack of quality is another negative.
Exercise Cave dwellers got a tremendous amount of exercise by chasing after wild animals, climbing trees, and finding new areas to gather food. We will never be able to duplicate that, especially in our old age. They had sufficient calcium from eating lots of leafy greens and lots of physical activity to build strong bones. We don't have that and never will, in most cases.
The degenerative diseases of old age Cave dwellers didn't live long enough to develop degenerative diseases, but we do. Animal protein for them represented a concentrated soure of energy so they could survive an arduous lifestyle in the wild. How do our needs, in old age, compare to their needs? What kind of diet is best suited to live healthy into advanced old age? That's what we need to think about.