What is Reddit's opinion of The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet?

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Kundalini awakening!? …go on. I don’t know much about awakenings or how to attain them, but it sounds like an enticing pursuit. I guess I sort of fall into the new age camp, though I’m a healthy skeptic to a certain degree.

Diet can play a huge role on well being. Years ago I tried a reductive-paleo approach (via The Paleo Solution) in which you eliminate pretty much everything and slowly reintroduce things to your system - the idea being you get to see your body’s inflammation response when you reintroduce different foods - potatoes might not be your friend. :P Worth checking out, it’s an interesting experiment and read.

My recommendation would be that you read this book by Robb Wolf to better understand the whys of paleo. To address your second question... You should jump right in with a 30 day strict paleo diet to get yourself over the hurdles of cravings/dependence. It will be hard and you will be mean for up to two weeks, but trust that its for the greater good. When you are no longer dependent upon sugar/grains you will feel in control. The way I like to look at it... if you were addicted to heroin and trying to quit would keep doing heroin a couple days out the week? I know... an extreme example, but you get the idea.

That's good :) I have heard of vegans having terrible joint pain after a few years.

It sounds like others have better advice about similar things physiologically, but I think as long as you're trying things, you should try cutting grains out of your diet, or if you want to go all in, just try a paleolithic diet for 6 weeks or so.

I have heard many anecdotes of tendinitis, arthritis and other aching joint problems clear up on a paleo diet.

It certainly can't hurt to try.

This is a good reference: http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844

I would work on the relationship until your child leaves home (2 years?). If at that point you still want to be with your husband, stay with him. And it should only be you wanting to, not being scared of the alternatives.

Just work on figuring out what you want during that time, not what anyone else wants. He betrayed your trust, so work on trusting yourself more. If you continue in the marriage it has to be because you have changed something in yourself that you can trust him again (I don't think under current conditions you should or could), not because he apologizes or manipulates you emotionally.

Also, you will be able to trust yourself more if you don't think of yourself as overweight. I recommend something that has changed my life and my lifestyle:

http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844

Just give it a chance (or one of the many other Paleolithic nutrition/exercise information sources out there), and it should give you the tools both in diet and exercise to have no caveats or excuses when you describe yourself.

> I have. My research points to you being very wrong.

Sorry Bro-tein shake, no, it doesn't.

Here's three books that back up everything I've claimed - The Paleo Solution, written by a Phd research Biochemist, Rob Wolf and this book The Paleo Diet written by Loren Cordain, another Phd research scientist/college professor who has studied ancient diets and finally The Wheat Belly, written by a cardiologist who observed what grain based, high carb, high sugar diets were doing to his patients

> "Your age or experience do not give you any kind of credibility."

It sure does my friend.

This is about glyphosate/Roundup.

I will not eat produce that's been blasted with glyphosate or rotated on fields with other crops that are blasted with glyphosate.

Studies may or may not have found that it does not cause cancer. "Unlikely" is not good enough for me. Monsanto or anyone else has not done long enough studies to rule to if there are long term health effects from glyphosate.

I apply that same philosophy to all the food I eat. I buy organic as much as possible. I don't buy any processed, prepackaged food. Everything my girlfriend & I make at home is made with all natural ingredients and from scratch.

Read Robb Wolf's The Paleo Solution. Read Loren Cordain's writings about Paleo. Just an fyi, they are both Phds who have spent a lot of time researching ancient diets. Read The Wheat Belly, which was written by a cardiologist.

What is currently accepted as a "healthy diet" such as low-fat, multi-grain, is a crock of shit.

Most of what you see in the supermarket, which is currently considered "food" is nothing but slow toxins.

Diet related illnesses such as type II diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, heat disease, etc are escalating at near epidemic levels.

I choose to eat all natural, organic and unprocessed foods, like my great, great grand parents did because the shit that is being sold as food at McDonald's, Applebee's, or your corner convenience store is truly slow toxins.

I'll be 50 this year. The choice's I've made have so far worked as plan. I have zero health issues while many people my age are starting to show the ill health of their bad choices and bad behaviors such as smoking, eating too much shitty food or drinking too much.

> "what reasonable evidence would convince you that glyphosate or roundup was safe"

It would take a few generations of usage to convince me.

Unfortunately, I won't be able be around to witness it.

Pesticides often are stored in the fat of a person's body. Then those pesticides get passed on to their children, in this case, from the mother. We probably don't have any research or evidence based on the accumulation of glyphosate and it's metabolites and their effects on children.

Have you ever read about the Paleo Diet? Actually read the science behind it, from key PHd researchers like Robb Wolf or Loren Cordain and not just regurgitated stereotypes of the diet?

One of the primary facets of the diet is that even though grains have been in the human diet for a few thousand years, humans have not sufficiently adapted/evolved to eating grains. And that's why there are so many diet related health issues such as celiac/gluten diseases, in addition to many others. Over the entire evolution of the human body, for 99.5% of that time, we didn't eat grains. And after a few 1000 years, we're still having issues adapting to them.

So, just because Monsanto studied on mice for a few years, or on other animals, I'm not going to trust putting this chemical in my body.

And it doesn't have to be about cancer. Ingesting glyphosate for years & years, and having it slowly accumulate in our body fat, could cause a lot of other health issues.

I know people who have bad eczema who see dramatic improvements when they cut out grains, sugars, HFCS and other artificial ingredients from their diet.

My girlfriend & I have been mostly paleo for 4 years. The day after she eats bread or pasta or other wheat based food, she's guaranteed to have an acne breakout. It's that immediate.

If you eat canned tuna once in a while, you're ok. However, if you eat tuna every day, you will eventually suffer from mercury poisoning. A few body builders have experienced this when they are on strict diets to get cut up for competitions.

It took a couple of generations of humans to see how DDT effected them. It caused birth defects in the children of mothers exposed to the chemical.

Oh man here's something that actually was one of the nudges that got me moving towards this lifestyle. Near me in Dayton is SunWatch Village, an achaeological dig/restoration of a Mound-Builders village. I read in either The Paleo Solution or Wheat Belly a comparison between the agrarian Mound Builders and their hunter-gatherer cousins to the north. The bones and teeth of the Mound Builders were porous and showed caries (cavities) and the hunter-gatherers' remains showed healthy bones even in older individuals and no signs of caries. I want to google around and find the original source studies for these claims. Glad you decided to follow your H-G ancestors and not your sedentary farmer ones!

Wow, in the middle of replying & the person who told me I was 'wrong' has deleted their comment. Interesting.

To that person, and for /u/bonenecklace since you seem interested (the defensive aggression was not directed at you, sorry): I never stated that fruit wasn't part of a paleo diet, but that a paleo meal would not contain THIS MUCH FRUIT. A paleo diet limits fruit intake due to the high fructose many fruits contain. Some high-sugar fruits are off limits on paleo, some (avocados, lemon) are unlimited but a dinner plate with 5 different servings of fruit - that's definitely not Paleo.

"Most folks are battling some kind of metabolic derangement, aka obesity, diabetes, fertility issues, depression, etc. This with a mixed bag of autoimmunity and systemic inflammation. Until you are lean and healthy, you don’t get much fruit. There is no nutrient in fruit that is not available in veggies, and fruit may have too many carbs for you. When we start talking about what constitutes “health,” we will see where on that spectrum you are. For now, just keep things simple and you will reap the greatest rewards.
~ Robb Wolf, p. 214 The Paleo Solution

Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint food pyramid

"if you are very much overweight or are insulin resistant, he recommends that you initially limit high sugar fruits (grapes, bananas, mangos, sweet cherries, apples, pineapples, pears and kiwi fruit) from your diet until your weight starts to normalize and your health improves. Try to include more vegetables in lieu of the high-sugar fruit."

Balances Bites Paleo food pyramid

"While the fruits found tens of thousands of years ago were likely far different in nature than what you find on today’s store shelves, here are some Paleo-approved fruits you can eat in moderation"

You both need to read The Paleo Solution cause what you're talking about is not a healthy diet.

Robb Wolf's book The Paleo Solution has exactly this. A detailed 30-day menu.

> "have made food prices drop drastically, making more foods accessible and leading people to overeat."

>"It's not that these things are bad for you, it's just that they're over consumed."

dude, it's not overeating that's the problem. this shit is bad for you.

try reading rob wolf's paleo diet and "the wheat belly" written by a cardiologist.

the food that's being put in front of us in convenience stores, chain restaurants and supermarket are slow poisons. correlation does not imply causation but in this case it definitely indicates that we should research a link between the two.

the epidemic of health problems are caused by the changes to our food supply over the last 30 years. the 2 books will give you plenty of information about it if you read them front to back.

i'm 5'10" and 175lbs. i've been a very active athlete & gym rat since my teens. my girlfriend is 5'3" about 115-120lbs. she's pretty active as well. we've both been pretty careful about what we eat for a long time. and we're not overeaters by any means. we both did the 30 day paleo challenge during lent. i lost about 5 pounds of fat around my stomach and i was pretty lean to begin with. my girlfriend lost at least 5 pounds around her hips. her jeans & dresses are loose now.

so by eliminating wheat, grains, rice, pasta & sugary foods and eating only veggies, fruits & lean meats we immediately lost a noticeable amount of weight in 30 days. we didn't change our exercise or activity routines.

the highly processed food that's being put in front of mass consumers is a slow ticking time bomb.

Check out some /r/paleo diet recipes. They involve gluten free foods. Most are low carb and the ones with carbs are always root tubers that have fiber which slows down carb release. Here are some links:

http://civilizedcavemancooking.com/

http://everydaypaleo.com/category/food/

Sounds like they are into health...you can give them some books about the diet for the holidays, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.

http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844

http://www.amazon.com/The-Primal-Blueprint-Reprogram-effortless/dp/0982207786/ref=pd_sim_b_7

http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844

Read it and win.

Read the Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf

He was a competitive lifter and went thru some almost life threatening dietary issues. Once he realized that wheat & grains were fucking up his insides he was able to fix the problem.

Going full Paleo might not be a reasonble solution for you but realizing how harmful white flour, wheat and grains are to our body will be enough to help you reduce them in your diet.

here's a speech he gave that might give you a quick intro to what he's about

The Paleo Solution, by Robb Wolff http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844

You should both do Paleo together: http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844

Sending good thoughts your way, mate.

A couple things:

• Check out The Paleo Solution
• The Food Matters DVD I recently purchased was full of win.

See Stephan Guyenet's interpretation of the Kitavan studies. Hmm, I'm seeing he only says, "external cancers", though - so not sure how lung cancer classifies there. Also check out a small, isolated culture in Japan who smoke but have very low cancer rates. Guynet makes the point in his posting that these nearly cancer free populations all exclude: processed food, grains, vegetable oils and sugar. Basically any form of paleo diet, see Robb Wolf's Paleo Solution book for a good overview of this diet and why it works.

120 lbs and 7% - wow, ok.

First thing is to get properly educated before you begin. I started with Robb Wolf's book: The Paleo Solution. Also check out the FAQ here in the sidebar.

Exercise is a given - preferably something high intensity with short intervals. I like the Scientific 7-Minute Workout. No special equipment except for a chair.

Re: diet, I would say the lower-carb you go, the faster it will come off. Once you approach your goal, add in more Paleo-friendly carbs (sweet potatoes, plantains, fruit, etc) in order to maintain.

That being said, in getting to that lower-carb state, you might want to go about that gradually if you've never done it before. If you go super-low carbs, then you should probably take a break from it now and then (say, a couple days every 2-3 weeks have some Paleo-friendly starches)

Last but not least, mind your sleep habits and stress levels.

The Paleo Solution

This should answer a lot of your questions.

Cut the carbohydrates, especially wheat and sugar. Shes doesn't need any. Her belly will disappear within a couple months if you cut those out.

Then read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/0982565844

And never be confused about nutrition again.