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Paleo Power: Seniors – You Know More Than You Think You know
Paleo Power: Seniors – You Know More Than You Think You know
The basic idea behind paleo is that we should eat the foods our Paleolithic hunter-gatherer ancestors ate. Pre-agrarian foods obtained from hunting or foraging: meat, seafood, plants, fruits and nuts.
In modern practice, this boils down to meats, organs, poultry, fish and eggs. Grass fed or wild caught are optimal. How hard can it be?
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Most vegetables are good, especially roots including carrots, turnips and parsnips. However vegetables newer to the human diet are on the B-list: corn, potatoes, beans and sweet potatoes.
Fruits and berries are good, but modern fruits including apples and peaches which have been cultivated for more sugars are B-listed.
Nuts are good, but best if you shell them yourself – like your ancestors did. Then you won’t overeat these nutritional powerhouses.
Paleo diets exclude grains. That means breads, pastas, most processed foods that are based on overly-refined wheats and other grains. Added sugars, salt, and peanuts are forbidden.
Some avoid dairy, but I believe the real culprits here are overly processed milk products which are loaded with sugars. Raw milk cheeses, cream, sour cream, Greek (unsweetened) yogurts and cottage cheese are good.
If you think about it, most of us AARP eligible folks grew up on a proto-paleo plan. We grew up before entire fields were poisoned with chemical fertilizers and herbicides. The meats we ate were most often locally butchered after being raised on a local farm. Eggs came from a farmer down the road. Fish was caught by nearby fishermen.
Nobody thought about shipping tender fruits and berries far from the field because they’d just rot, so we ate local fruit and berries in season. Nuts stored best in their own natural shells, so we were most likely to get them just that way and not eat more than we could shell.
We did eat wheat and other grains, but even the wheat we were offered was less hybridized that modern grain products, which are mostly GMO (a topic for another day), and much less nutritious. Bread is no longer the staff of life, but a breeder of many lifestyle maladies and disease.
While all the above is the truth, we also are the first generation in the history of mankind who has acted as guinea pigs to the great processed foods experiment.
Beginning with teevee dinners and boxed and shelf-stable faux foods, we’ve had a front row seat to the degradation of the American food supply.
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We all know people who suffer from the so-called lifestyle ailments: diabetes, heart disease and cancers are the big three and they can all point to a connection to the degraded food supply.
Not only those, but also ADHD, Autism, and Alzheimers can point to connections to the food supply.
Yikes. What can we do? We can clean up our act. Learn to read labels and to shop more carefully. Get closer the source of our food supply. And know this plain truth about the human body.
Given half a chance, the body can and will heal itself – with good food, rest, and exercise. That’s what Paleo Power for Seniors is all about.
Tomorrow, we’re going to deconstruct a popular recipe for Broccoli Salad with Bacon and Raisins. What are the elements? Why you should choose it? And when can you leave out that cup of sugar so often called for in 50’s era recipes.
Stay tuned. It’s gonna be a great ride back to go forward.
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