“This diet has been around for decades in one form or another, and it works very well for many people. My husband lost 65 lbs. and has kept it off for several years now.”
Our ancestors back a hundred years plus lived on this diet.
About 2 years ago, I had severe foot problems and listened to a health advisor really followed the high carb pyramid bs. I could not walk my normal 1.5 miles per day with some nice hills due to my foot problems. In a little over a year with my crummy high carb diet and minimal exercise I gained about 35-45 pounds.
Then, I had a severe foot operation with about 50 stiches and enough metal screws and stuff in the foot bones, that makes an Xray of my foot look like an Ace Hardware ad for stainless steel gear. I have so much steel in that foot, I set off alarms at courthouses and baseball stadiums in their metal detection areas.
It took another year to get back to my full walking. I was like your husband about 65 pounds over weight.
A friend who had been through the same and had lost 65 #’s told me to forget about the deadly food pyramid. He told me to read up on the paleo diet and go on it. I did.
We threw away basically anything with carbs, sugar, flour in any form, any thing that said diet on it. Also zero processed food. My FP/Doc was for the diet, and he said to buy stuff from the edges of a big grocery store. That is where the produce and fresh food including meat, poultry, milk/cheese and fresh seafood are. He said to never buy anything in a package. He recommended 1-2 eggs 3-4 times a week and said that bacon was God’s gift to us.
In about 2 weeks, I lost 20 pounds, after a month 40 pounds and after 3-4 months, 65 pounds in total.
My wife is a great cook, and she had noticed in her 35 years as the head RN for a large FP practice that the Italians and Greeks if they didn’t kill each other when they were young, lived long life spans.
So she created a modified Mediterrain Diet. We have smoked Sockeye Salmon every morning for breakfast with fresh tomatoes, a seasonal fruit and a handful of mixed nuts.
Lunch consists of real meat: Sliced ham, turkey and sometimes a tuna salad from canned tuna. I make a roll with a big leaf of kale, the meat and cheese.
Dinner is often char grilled ocean salmon, other ocean fish, or grilled steak, pork loin, chicken or grass fed hamburger and grilled veggies for a side. We have a fresh green salad after every dinner. We have some real chocolate candy for dessert.
My wife keeps local fresh fruit/veggies and mixed nuts on a counter for our snacks. She lost 7-10 pounds and has maintained her 20 year old weight since we started this. We are new Kaiser patients, and her FP sent back a copy of her lab test values with an A+ and a great!. He told her that he has female jocks that would kill for her lab values.
What is wrong with canned food?
Mostly veggies like canned spinach, lima beans, peas.
Not really unless you are talking the summer diet.
Without refrigeration and pressure canning having safe meat and veggies year around could be a problem which was why people ate things that stored. Small amounts of smoked or salted meat, potatoes, storage friendly vegetables such as cabbage and hard squash, some dried fruit and fruits that stored like apples.
Sure you had a cow and laying hens but once again, milk and eggs were seasonal.
Of course people were working all that carb heavy food off with manual labor. Just doing the laundry was a major work out.