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Paleolithic Model for Nutrition

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Parnell:
A topic I'm always interested in.  Don't think there is any arguement that processed foods are beneficial, that is, unless your STARVING!
Always wondered about that blood typing diet.  My father was O and struggled with cholesterol, so, I never quite got that.
I don't think anything will ever beat fresh unprocessed food, moderation, and a dose of exercise.  Now if I could just always afford fresh unprocessed food and enjoy beer a little less!  Ha!

leapingbare:
Its is more expensive to buy healthy food.
But if you can fill a deep freezer in the fall and add some white meat in the spring and have a good garden its not to bad.

Lombard:
Interesting topic you've raised Leapingbare. One of several books that I was fortunate to receive at Christmas was, The Vitamin D Cure written by Dr. James Dowd. My wife and I have adopted the diet (not calorie restricted incidentally, just have to eat the good stuff) on January first, and can report better sleep, increased energy, and a positive sense of well being. In addition we already have had to take the belts up a notch to tighten them around our waists. With Sun, supplementation, and dietary changes, we are believers that better health is an inevitable result of better diet.

Indeed it is more expensive to maintain the healthy produce, and lean meats that are recommended. We can hardly wait to start harvesting fresh produce from our Square Foot Garden (another awesome book by the way), and realize a savings on our grocery bill.

We can eat all of the good stuff we want. Fresh produce, and controlled amounts of lean meat protein, which wild game is highly recommended by Dr. Dowd. We have gone without pasta, bread, cereals both cold and hot, basically all grains, no added salt to any of our foods, soda, and only 100% fruit juices since the first. We had some awful cravings, but think we are over the hump. Good foods automatically correct the chronic acid base imbalance that has adverse effects on the long term health of the majority of Americans.

Interestingly Dr. Dowd recommends another book titled The Paleo Diet written by Dr. Loren Cordain, which we will no doubt obtain at some point in the near future.

Postman:
Interesting stuff, Lombard. Glad to hear you've found a natural way to get healthy!  Many anthropologists believe variations in human skin color resulted from a balancing act of getting enough UVB radiation to prouce Vit. D, without getting too much. Many individual's melanocytes can produce a bit more pigment by "tanning", of course. The Inuit are an exception to this, and are not as "washed out" as many historic northern European populations,  possibly due to high vitamin D in sea mammals. A recent article in Nat. Geographic showed evidence northern neanderthals were pale and may have had a red hair gene unrelated to the H. sapiens gene for red hair. (My granddad had red hair, as does my wife,  so no hatin' ... ;D)  Despite vitamin D milk, there seems to be a problem with Vitamin D levels in our American youth blamed on soda consumption and decreased outdoor activity.

leapingbare:
Abby and me eat very well i think, We will on a rear occasion indulge in a cheese burger from sonic or Hardy's or a huge serving of fried taters from the bow club. But 90% of what we eat is lean meat and veggies. I eat 3k-4k cals a day but its all good stuff.
 The red hair thing is weird, So here are two weird genetic things about my self, I have brown hair but if i grow my beard out its red, my moms dad was the same way. Also i have grown 3 inches in the last 2 years and i am 27 years old. This is from my dads side, most of the men from my dads side grow 5-6 inches and a shoe size from the age 26 to 28. Weird huh? :)

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