The news is just in: Fad diets are stupid according to a team of scientists who set out to demonstrate the benefits of the paleo diet but found exactly the opposite.
According to researchers, following the paelo diet for as little as eight weeks could make dieters experience rapid weight gain, health complications and an acceleration of pre-diabetes symptoms.
In other words the research showed the paleo diet – like a lot of other fad lifestyles – was mostly a load of woo-woo (otherwise known as Instagram witchcraft) that is really no better for you than just being a lazy but sensible eater.
Now I know you’re going to say “I’ve seen Pete Evans and he looks pretty amazing so paleo must be doing something right”. But in all likelihood Pete’s glowing skin is simply the result of a heavily conscious diet – not paleo diet itself. When you think carefully about everything you put in your mouth, you SHOULD look and feel amazing.
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The whole "real food" movement is just a reaction to the "processed food" movement which has been forced upon us by Governments and corporations. We were told "fat" makes us fat, not to eat eggs, to eat lean meat, to swap butter for vegetable oil, to drink low-fat milk, to avoid organ meat, to avoid chicken skin, that bacon is bad for you, to drink "diet" drinks to lose weight, that the "base" of our food pyramid should grains (not vegetables and meat), to eat sugar "in moderation".
That advice is WRONG. Fat does not make us fat. Human beings need to consume protein and fat. We do not need to consume sugar. Our bodies can create energy (glucose) from fat and protein. Of course, carbs (vegetables, grains) provide vitamins, minerals, energy and form part of a well rounded, healthy diet.
100 years ago, no one had to be told what food to eat or how much. We didn't "snack" or eat deserts every day. Fruit was a treat. Diseases that are common now were rare (heart disease, diabetes, cancer, depression etc).
Over the last 100 years, what has changed? Our food has become proceed, refined, has had the fat removed and sugar or artificial sweeteners added so that it is palatable. Our bodies do not recognise/ know how to process these artificial sweeteners. Our bodies have difficulty processing fructose (whether its in the form of fruit, honey, table sugar or high fructose corn syrup). When we eat it, is cases our insulin to spike. If we eat too much, we become insulin resistant and resistant to a hormone called Lepitn. Without going into too much detail, this causes us to store energy as fat, making weight loss difficult. It also causes us to feel hungry. As a result, our food is not satisfying and does not provide sufficient nutrition.
Is not normal to eat sweets every day - they should be a rare treat. Human beings were not designed to eat multiple. huge pieces of fruit every day. When all our food has added sugar in it, we can't taste the natural sweetness in meat and vegetables. We constantly crave more refined sugar.
Bread, milk, butter, full fat cream/ yoghurt fatty meat are healthy when prepared according to traditional methods - not in a factory. Unfortunately, its difficult and expensive to find unprocessed milk and traditionally prepared bread/ grains so it may be worthwhile avoiding them all together.
Love this, too often these days articles on nutrition get things oh so wrong. People want an answer other than moderation and feel they have to label themselves and take things to the extreme because it may be trendy