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But what do you eat? Mostly fat and protein?
by vegardx 8y ago
But what do you eat? Mostly fat and protein?
- darkhorn 8y agoThink about hunter gatherers during the Paleolithic period. Nuts, meat, fat, eggs, bone marrow, liver, berries etc.
- vegardx 8y agoBut on that list are great sources for fiber and carbs, namely berries and nuts. So going by the assumptions that we should eat like the early humans did, it makes no sense to avoid fiber and carbs.
- kbutler 8y ago100g Almonds carbohydrate 22g (and lots of paleo friendly fat and protein) 100g strawberries carbohydrate 8g (basically the rest of the weight is water) These are hardly "not eating carbohydrates". Also, considering any product of modern agriculture "paleolithic" is inaccurate. The almonds and strawberries differ greatly from the wild varieties available to primitive hunter-gatherers - largely because they have drastically increased carbohydrates - but even the chickens/turkeys/cows producing meat and eggs are very different from undomesticated animals. Even kale and broccoli didn't exist before about 4000 years go.
- darkhorn 8y agoStill better that consuming bread, sugar and alcohol. I didn't write that you should consume 100% prehistoric food.
- accnumnplus1 8y agoThey would dig up roots and tubers as well.
- astazangasta 8y agoWith respect, how should I think about them? Just dream up whatever I want? Okay. My Paleolithic people ate mostly fish, and supplemented with breadfruit and coconuts. Is that right? You don't have any idea, because you weren't there. Also, WHICH Paleolithic people? I must imagine that those people ate varied diets that were contingent on their locality. People on the tundra would maybe not be eating so many nuts. Encouraging people to construct their diet by imagining the past is a useless exercise.
- chillwaves 8y agoYou do not have to positively identify what they ate so much as identify what they did not eat. They did not eat canned food, microwave meals or McDonalds or soda/chips. Does that help?
- kbutler 8y agoOr broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, etc. Or any fruits or vegetables you can buy in any modern restaurants or stores. Or meat from any domesticated animal. Not sure that helps, frankly.
- astura 8y agoThere was no single "Paleolithic diet," different peoples in different geologic areas ate different things in differing amounts. Even if there was, the foods that existed in Paleolithic times no longer exist due to both natural genetic changes combined with selective breeding.
- labster 8y agoI wanted to try the paleo diet, but the supermarket was always sold out of mammoth, saber-tooth, and aurochs meat.