The Stone Age diet - Paleo

A new diet trend develops rapidly worldwide and is literally on everyone's lips. The Paleo diet. Ignorant they describe mostly as Paleo diet. That Paleo but more is a form of nutrition or a setting, as means to an end, is often unknown.

Many start with Paleo because health problems, among others bad blood, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, sleep disorders or depression have.

The success stories regarding the immense improvement of quality of life and health are piling up every day. Where supporters and advocates have this form of nutrition, there are also critics. No wonder, because all the classic rules of nutritional science are placed upside down here. Also the aspect that every body needs other things to work well, you should not ignore. Everyone has a different metabolism, different circumstances and a different constitution, ie basic level, he scored inherited. What for is a good, is not automatically applied to other equally suitable.

In one aspect, the Paleo diet undoubtedly positive, that affects us all: the total actually historically considered only young Western diet, which is based on sugar, processed foods and low-quality fats, is taboo in Paleo. can be prevented, reduced or even cured a variety of diseases of civilization Only by avoiding these products.

But what is Paleo or what makes this type of diet just so healthy?

The principles of the Stone Age diet, named Paleo, reach far back into the history of mankind, and thus are based on the original diet of living in the Paleolithic ago approximately 2.5 million years ago hunters and gatherers. It imitates this with today's available food by and is very focused on the sustainability and high quality of products. So based are foods than people in similar form stood by us during 2.5 million years long evolution available and provide an ideal nutrient for our body.

The diet and their influence on disease

One might think that Stone Age people were not very old. However, was not on the diet, but rather at a high infant mortality, lack of medical care, natural disasters and the wild animals, as natural enemies.

So you go just assume that agriculture has even represents a step backwards in the quality of life and quality of food for us. Why? Hunter-gatherers had a more varied diet and had to work a lot less. They had a more relaxed life, than the later farmers. Because, then fell from a harvest, or died a cow, there was no food for the farmers. Hunter-gatherers found even in bad times always food sources.

In Paleo whilst preserving various foods because they were not around in the Paleolithic simply not available in such large quantities, but rather of because they have a negative effect on the body.

Highly processed foods, cereals and junk food are unhealthy for a variety of reasons:

They usually contain a lot of carbohydrates, which causes the body leaves with too much consumption of it as an energy source and thus may lose its natural ability body fat to convert into energy. As a consequence arising retention of excess sugar as body fat and an increase in blood glucose levels. This can, among other things lead to diabetes due.
Especially processed foods that have lost important nutrients or their components have been changed, have negative consequences on our digestive tract. This can lead to an imbalance in the intestinal flora and inflammatory diseases, which can be chronic in some cases.
Artificial flavor enhancers and signal substances in the brain talk to our reward system. Because they do not contain nutrients that trigger a feeling of satiety, we automatically eat too much of it.
For our immune chronic inflammation mean continuous stress. It will be more susceptible to infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases and cardiovascular diseases.
If one's diet to Paleo to, that does not mean that their standard of living now is to completely give up. It's more a focus on nutritional approaches that have proved effective and the understanding of what our body is doing well. So a combination of Paleo with findings from modern science.

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Bread Myth - Why Not Crop We Doing Good?

A freshly baked bread is incredibly tempting. In the Paleo diet but all grain products are all taboo. Can something taste so good and still be bad for us?

Fresh bread
Tempting, but unhealthy: Our body can not handle grain.

The Paleo theory: We still do not eat long (enough) Cereal products, as that our genes it could adapt. Here all the facts on the subject:

Only with the beginning of agriculture, our Jäger & Sammler has changed diet dramatically. The first cereal products have only been 11,500 years, rice for 10,000 years, since about 9,000 years maize
Large spread in Western Europe have to include grain products only since about 7,000 years, according to the state of the teeth of our ancestors, wheat is however only since 1200 years a major component of our diet.

Development of global cereal production (million tonnes)

Grain is particularly rich in phytic acid, which inhibits the uptake of a whole range of important minerals. Scientists assume that this was the main reason for a decline in growth in stature of the people, after we have gone over to wheat-based diet.
Technically seen evolution 11,500 years as long as a blink of the eye. Our genes have not had time to adapt to this radical change in your diet.
In Germany, 91.6 kg grain products are consumed per year per person. Combined with a 35 kg of sugar, which takes every German to be in the year, a basic diet gives the not even removed reminded, as we have long nourished us thousands of years healthy.
Cereals lack of vitamins and minerals. We are mainly pasta and bread to us, we eat starchy carbohydrates that are just sugar for the body again. We thus displace nutrient-rich foods such as meat, fruits, nuts, vegetables and fish.
In the cereals outweigh omega-6 fatty acids, but consumed in large quantities can be harmful and promote inflammation. Worse, they also suppress the vital for us omega 3 fatty acids.
Many "lifestyle diseases" such as tooth decay, allergies, metabolic disorders, bone tenderness and even dementia can be traced back to the cereal and sugar-heavy diet today. Carbohydrate deficiency diseases, however there is not.
There is no "essential", so vital carbohydrates. Without fats and proteins but man can not live. Nevertheless, one day often begins with granola, lunch, there is a sandwich, afternoon cakes and evening pasta. This can not go well in the long run.
Cereal has developed its own defense strategy to protect themselves against predators: block lectins and gluten, the digestion and absorption of nutrients. Both are also instrumental in the development of auto-immune diseases. Since lectins and gluten are resistant to heat, they reach undisturbed in the small intestine and are not broken down like the rest of the food in the body. They grab the small intestine to downright and make it more permeable, which means that they can enter the bloodstream more directly. Here, our body begins now to fight back. An autoimmune response occurs because the immune system damages in this case also the body's own cells.
The whole thus reads pretty creepy. The classic "nutrition chart" with carbohydrates as a fundamental basis is a construct of the 50s and urgently needs to be overhauled. For still lives a large part of the population in mind, the body of bread to do something good. That reminds me of the smell of fresh bread in spite of this knowledge itself is still a pleasure, I will soon start a few alternatively baking experiments.

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