The Benefits of the Paleo Diet

Diet and nutrition is a determining factor for good health. paleo cereal Modern western diets contain processed foods, salt, unhealthy fats and simple carbohydrates that can often lead to a wide range of chronic health problems.

The Paleo diet is a healthier alternative to modern processed foods and eating habits. New research findings indicate that the Paleo diet can also help prevent chronic disease.

It supplies the energy all your cells need to repair and regenerate; it powers your mind and muscles. Over millions of years the human body grew accustomed to eating a wide variety of plant and animal foods.

Before the domestication of grain and livestock humans lived and thrived on a diet of complex carbohydrates from fruits and a variety of plants. Proteins and fats included both plant and animal foods.

Farmers and villagersPaleolithic farmers, according to the University of Maryland became much shorter than hunter gatherers, experienced a variety of new diet related diseases and developed tooth decay. After farming began people started eating a diet high in cereals and cereal fed fatty meats. The variety of healthy plant foods and healthy proteins diminished with visible effects on human health.

As now, the diet contained about 40% protein from various animal and plant sources. There was less fat and the Paleo diet contained healthier omega 3 fats instead of saturated fats and the omega 6 fats found in grain fed meats and processed foods.

Eat Healthy and Be HealthyThe Paleo diet can be very beneficial in reducing the risk factors for diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease. Eating more of the complex carbohydrate foods found in the Paleo diet improves insulin resistance in people with diabetic tendencies.

A clinical study of the Paleo diet conducted at UCSF produced some surprising results. All the people who ate the Paleolithic diet scored better for all the health risk factors in the study. This included a drop in LDL cholesterol and triglycerides comparable to that produced by six months use of statin drugs.

The benefits of adopting the Paleo diet are easy to see. You will feel better, have more energy and have a reduced risk of chronic illness. Make the healthy choice and eat more like your caveman ancestors.