The Paleo Diet is the recent popular unhealthy weight loss fad being promoted by marketers and by people who do not want to give up the food that makes them fat and sick. “In an attempt to remedy the obvious harms to human health caused by very low-carb eating, apologists (including the Atkins Nutri-tionals) have added fruits and non-starchy vegetables to their programs. This effort is supposed to disguise, and compensate for, the unhealthy effects of consuming animal foods at every meal,” writes Dr. John McDougall. Since 1990 Slender For Life™ has offered a safe, sane, healthy and effective way for you to lose weight and keep it off. Visit my Seattle weight loss or Bainbridge weight loss offices or online via Skype and learn how you too can learn the tools to be slender for the rest of your life.
Michael Greger M.D., October 9, 2012, Paleolithic Lessons: An evolutionary argument for a plant-based diet is presented, in contrast to “paleo” fad diets.
The Paleo Diet Is a Nutritional Nightmare
By nature, the Paleo Diet is based on artery-clogging saturated fats and cholesterol, and bone-damaging, acidic proteins from animal foods. Respected researchers find that those modern-day hunter-gather populations who base their diets on meat, such as the Inuits (Eskimos), suffer from heart disease and other forms of atherosclerosis, and those modern-day hunter-gathers who base their diets on plant foods (starches) are free of these diseases. Osteoporosis, from their high animal food-based diets, is also epidemic among meat and fish consuming hunter-gathers, specifically the Inuits.
In an attempt to defend eating animals, Paleo teachers believe the harmful nutrients from these foods are counteracted by the addition of non-starchy fruits and vegetables, and nuts and seeds.
Furthermore, according to Dr. Cordain, a diet very high in animal protein foods would cause a person to become seriously ill with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and eventually death from protein toxicity (also known as “rabbit starvation”). (p 105). For most people the dietary ceiling for protein is 200 to 300 grams a day or about 30 to 40 percent of the normal daily calorie intake. The Paleo Diet is as high as 35% protein. (p 24) Contradicting his warnings, Dr. Cordain consistently and frequently emphasizes that “Protein is the dieter’s friend.” (p 48).
Eating animal-derived foods causes our most common diseases for many well-established reasons, including the indisputable facts that they contain no dietary fiber, are filthy with disease-causing microbes (including mad cow prions, and E. coli and salmonella bacteria), and contain the highest levels of poisonous environmental chemicals found in the food chain. Remember, disease-causing red meats, poultry, fish, and eggs make up 55% of the Paleo Diet.
The June 21, 2012 issue of the British Medical Journal presented the latest updates on the long-term health hazards of low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets, and reported that, “In particular, women had a 5% higher incidence of cardiovascular disease (heart disease) for each tenth of an increase in the low carbohydrate-high protein score, yielding a 62% higher incidence among women in the highest categories of low carbohydrate-high protein diets compared with the lowest.” These low-carb diets, from Atkins to Paleo, are simply dangerous.
Read The Paleo Diet Is Uncivilized
(And Unhealthy and Untrue) by John McDougall, M.D.
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When the McDougall diet and other vegetarian diet plans can show the before and after results the Paleo diet plans have shown, then people will pay attention. I have seen first hand what loosing weight with a vegetarian diet plan looks like: thin and sickly looking individuals. I have seen testimonials from hundreds of people showing the results of paleo diet programs, and I have experienced it for myself. When you loose weight with paleo diet, you don’t loose muscle mass, you look like an athlete. McDougall plan weight loss makes people thin but rather sickly looking. If the plan you use is successful than post the before and after pictures, they speak for themselves. That is why paleo is popular, because it works.
I’ve not seen or met a sickly looking follower of the McDougall plan. Personally, I have gained muscle mass and lost a lot of body fat. I lift weights, ride my bike and hike in the mountains. I work with several vegan athletes who win their competitions.
In the month of November I have had 4 new clients who were on the Paleo Diet. Each of them became ill and were told to stop by their MD and they were referred to me. The Paleo Diet is unhealthy and untrue.
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