Following on from yesterday, I thought it timely to continue on the path of nutrition and eating plans. I read with interest this morning in the Sydney Morning Herald about the rise of the Paleo diet. This diet focuses on encouraging people to eat only things that our prehistoric ancestors could have eaten and to discard all the modern rubbish that we are bombarded with each day.
This caveman diet has been around for many years and is something that I have experimented with and found success over the past year. The key focus points are to put down any and all processed food and sugar as our digestive systems were just not designed to handle these trans fats, artificial substances and other gunk that has been invented over the past 100 years.
What was good for caveman is good enough for me and my experiments have proven to me that by adopting these changes and by regularly exercising, we hold the keys as the human race to beating the 21st century epidemic in the west – obesity.
I personally hate the word diet as I think it has developed so many negative connotations over the past couple of years. I prefer to think of things as a lifestyle nutrition plan. After all if we are change people for good and turn the corner or heart disease, obesity and unhealthy living, then we quite simply have to change forever. We cannot revert back to our old ways once results have occurred. We must hold strong to maintain or gains.
Many that I have spoken to have said that they could easily embrace this manner of eating which would ultimately send most fast food companies bust while prolonging the life of so many of us.
Others have expressed the desire to even learn the basics of how to lose weight. My answer is that if you don’t buy it you can’t eat it. This goes for anything that is a major cause of weight gain – soft drinks, alcohol, lollies, chocolate etc.
I am hopeful of seeing a world where enough people have walked past these aisles in supermarkets such that these companies either spin off into healthy alternatives or supermarkets stop selling them as the profits are just not there. – Sean Muller
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