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Eat for better health and weight loss the Paleo way with this revised edition of the bestselling guide-over 100,000 copies sold to date! Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet we were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight-up to 75 pounds in six months-or if... read more
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- Crohn: learn why eating the way our ancestors ate is the best diet for nearly everyone
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- Dr. Andrew Stoll
- Ann Woods
- Dr. S. Boyd Eaton
- Dr. Klaus Lorenz
- Dr. Cordain
- Dean Stankovic
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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“Whether you believe the architect of that blueprint is God, or God acting through evolution by natural selection, or by evolution alone, the end result is still the same: We need to give our bodies the foods we were originally designed to eat”
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All the lean meats, fish, and seafood you can eat 2. All the fruits and nonstarchy vegetables you can eat 3. No cereals 4. No legumes 5. No dairy products 6. No processed foods
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If your diet has high levels of acid, you’ll lose more calcium in your urine; if you eat more alkaline foods, you’ll retain more calcium.
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Monounsaturated fats are good. They’re found in olive oil, nuts, and avocados; are known to lower blood cholesterol; and help prevent artery clogging or atherosclerosis.
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We are now down to only four: olive oil, flaxseed oil, walnut oil, and avocado oil. I no longer can recommend canola oil at all, and the only oil I believe should be used for cooking is olive oil.
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High-sugar fruits like grapes, bananas, cherries, and mangos should be limited for obese patients or those with signs and symptoms of metabolic syndrome.
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Polyunsaturated fats are a mixed bag—some are more beneficial than others. For example, omega 3 polyunsaturated fats (the kind found in fish oils) are healthy fats, which can improve blood chemistry and reduce your risk of many chronic diseases. But omega 6 polyunsaturated fats (found in vegetable oils, many baked goods, and snack foods) are not good when you eat too much of them at the expense of omega 3 fats.
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You can get plenty of health-sustaining omega 3 fats from many foods found in the supermarket, such as:
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Simply stated, there are four oils (flaxseed, walnut, olive, and avocado) that can promote health and facilitate your getting the correct balance of good fats into your diet.
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The Seven Keys of the Paleo Diet
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Nuts are rich in calories. If you are trying to lose weight, you should eat only about 4 ounces of them a day. Also, except for walnuts, almost all nuts have high levels of omega 6 fats, and if eaten excessively, they can unbalance the ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 fats in your diet.
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THIS BOOK REPRESENTS the culmination of my lifelong interest in the link between diet and health, and of my fascination with anthropology and human origins.
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- Loren Cordain (Author)
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- Dewey: 613.282
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