Interesting, I’d been considering the paleo autoimmune protocol diet, but I don’t believe the “cave men” premise of paleo reasoning. God made man and that’s it-no evolution. It’s also quite restrictive and expensive. Paleo plus no eggs, no seeds or even seasonings that come from seeds, no tomatoes, etc. you can eat leafy greens and wild caught salmon. No way I can live off that and still have money left to feed my family!
“No way I can live off that and still have money left to feed my family!”
First of all it needs to be understood that there is no such thing as a one size fits all diet. Genetics and gene expression have a lot to do with how an individual person’s nutritional needs must be met. That said, however, the amount of carbohydrates, all of which are forms of sugars, in the government recommended diets are virtually certain to induce some level of metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes, and/or diabetes in the majority of the population. Humans with rare exceptions are not biologically equipped to handle that much carbohydrates on a persistent basis without becoming nutritionally sick. Even when their bodies more or less manage to control the blood sugars, the effect in later life is responsible for the huge increases we’ve seen in recent decades with neurological disorders and particularly with the onset of dementia, Altzheimers Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, memory loss, and more.
Can you afford to do anything about it and still feed a family? Yes, it is not really so difficult so long as someone is around to cook fresh foods and freeze them when needed. The cost of the meat, fish, and poultry is not an obstacle; because the amount of protein included in each meal needs to be limited anyway, otherwise the protein could be converted into glucose that in turn spikes blood sugar, spikes insulin levels above normal, forces the metabolism out of a state nutritional ketosis, and blocks the ability to metabolize the body fat to maintain or lose excess body weight. also, the meats, fish, and poultry with the most fats needed to maintain a high ratio of fat in the diet are often the least expensive varieties in the supermarket. So the lower costs and lower quantities required in such a diet should actually decrease the costs to the budget when compared to prepared foods high in carbohydrates. The cost of the fresh and frozen vegetables can be higher, however, those higher costs can very often be mitigated at least part of the year by growing fresh greens at home, even at an apartment. A patio full of pots, clay and/or plastic, have been sufficient to more than fill the salad bowls of two adults.
Watch for more on the subject of foods, meal plans, and recipes in the upcoming videos. Watch for the videos where a chart is presented showing the nutritional relationship between many of the popular diets. The Paleo diets are represented on the chart/s, and note their relative position to the ketogenic diets.
In the north — with seasons — Probably cyclical, few carbs in the winter, mostly wild game and fish. Fish and game meat preserved with salt. There might have been a fall harvest if people grew food.
Whatever was stored up from the fall harvest might have been consumed early on. How long does grain stay viable in storage?
Summer food probably consisted of berries and fruit. Add to the mix if an ancestor was nomadic.
Very likely very low fat and periods of starvation. Meat in the winter, grains and fruit in the summer. Equatorial regions probably had a greater variety year-round.
So folks with ancestors northern latitudes might have sensitives to food types that people from equatorial regions don't have and visa versa. Maybe why some people have a predisposition to cholesterol.