May 13, 2013

How The Paleo Diet Turns Back The Clock On Fat

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By Andrew Simpson


Back in the ages when the average human had to catch a fish and then worry about fighting away a saber-tooth tiger for his dinner, the medical complications that plague modern society were unheard of. Obesity, heart diseases, diabetes, indigestion, hemorrhoids, and other medical complications are a direct result of the poor diet of modern humans. If you want to eliminate fat and health concerns, choose the food that our forefathers did.

The majority of calories that the average American takes in come from corn in one fashion or another. A hamburger from a fast food restaurant is about eighty percent corn based. Since corn is a grain and not a vegetable, anything from corn syrup in a soft drink to corn-fed beef is simply perpetuating the unhealthy effects of the sugar within the grain.

By consuming artificial ingredients, furthermore, you never know exactly what it is you are eating. Industrial solvents and solutions can be applied to any food so long as it is called an artificial ingredient, without any way of the consumer knowing exactly what they are putting into their body.

If you have been eating processed foods all of your life and want a solution to the fat growing about your stomach and waist, you need only do what our ancestors did and find foods that occur naturally in the world. Making a commitment to the Paleo Diet is a sure-fire way to eliminate fat stored up from a lifetime of unhealthy choices.

What is the Paleo Diet? As the name suggests, it is the food choices that would have been available in the Stone Age, a time when your next meal came from scouring the forest floor in the hopes of finding mushrooms, roots, eggs, or an animal scampering about. No matter what your favorite foods are, odds are good the Paleo Diet allows you to eat them.

Do you love a T-bone steak seared to perfection? Since our ancestors could hunt and eat wild cattle, you can enjoy one as well. Do you like to nibble on trail mix? Dried fruits and nuts were just as available back then as they are now. Even some anachronisms like ice cream can be made on the Paleo diet, provided you use ingredients (like natural cocoa and vanilla beans) that would have been available in the time of wooly mammoths.

The results of modern, artificial foods speak for themselves. Only one in three Americans are not overweight, and only two in three are not obese. The solution is not maintaining an artificially low calorie count, but maintaining a calorie count low in artificial food. When your body can process and utilize every aspect of its meals, it creates no fat to be stored.

What is in the paleo diet? Simply put, everything: everything that you could have eaten if you lived in the time of the Ice age. If you enjoy eating ham with pineapple, worry not, for your ancestors could have caught themselves a wild boar and then used a pineapple to garnish the feast. If you love seafood soups with cilantro and mushrooms, knock yourself out with the shrimps and mussels of our choosing.

There are so many options available in the Paleo diet that it is easier to tell you what is not available. The syrups and grains and sugars that comprise so much of the "fast food" diet are off limits, since in the Stone Age nobody has heard of cupcakes with no-touch frosting.

The best part of the Paleo Diet is that it does not compromise on nutrition. If you want to bulk up and get a set of killer abs, you can get all the protein you need. If you want to fight flu season, you can get more than enough Vitamin C.

Trimming your fat by using the Paleo Diet requires no counting of calories. All you need to do is eliminate the foods that lead to fat-buildup and you are sure to watch a lifetime's worth of soda and pizza fade away. Best of all, you feel better as you look better due to the quality of nutrition.

The Paleo Diet can be for everyone, even vegetarians and vegans, since it offers choices that appeal to all tastes and preferences. If you have been frustrated by diets before, do not change how much you eat, change how much good food you eat.




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