What is the Paleo Diet?

1. Balances Blood Glucose Levels

Since the paleo diet avoids refined sugar it’s easier to avoid spikes in your blood sugar levels, which also helps in avoiding fatigue caused from sugar crashes.                          

2. Keeps you Feeling Fuller Longer
The paleo diet contains a high amount of healthy fats, helping you feel full and avoid food cravings.If you’re eating the right mix of proteins, vegetable, and fruits, you’ll have no problem getting from meal to meal.

3. Better Sleep
By removing processed and refined foods you’ll notice that overtime your body will naturally get tired at night.

4. Provides Detoxing Effects

By eating more fruits and vegetables you will be getting more antioxidants, phytonutrients, and fiber, purging your body of built-up waste. Many paleo followers report feeling lighter and more clear headed.

5. Supports Weight Loss

By cutting out empty

carbs and calories results in losing weight, feeling better, and having more sustained energy with no crashes.

Pasta (Including whole-wheat and gluten free)

Bread

Rice

Oats

Quinoa

Beans, Lentils, and Peanuts

Dairy

Refined Vegetable Oils

Refined Sugar (White and Brown Sugars, Agave, Corn, Syrup, Artificial Sweeteners, Candy)

Soy

The paleo diet is designed to resemble what human hunter-gatherer ancestors ate thousands of years ago. The paleo diet consists of real, whole foods, with the exception of some natural bottled or packaged sauces, condiments, and ingredients, with that you eliminate a whole range of preservatives, hidden sugars, sodium, additives, coloring, and artificial flavoring. As a result you eliminate unnecessary toxins and consume more nutrients.

The aim of a paleo diet is to return to a way of eating that more matches what our early ancestors ate.  The diet’s reasoning for this is that the human body is genetically mismatched to the modern diet that emerged with farming practices, an idea known as the discordance hypothesis.

Farming changed the way humans ate; it established dairy, grains, and legumes as additional staples in our diet.  This relatively late and rapid change in diet, according to the hypothesis, outpaced the body’s ability to adapt, which is believed to be a contributing factor to the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

Vegetables

Cauliflower

Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts

Cabbage

Bok Choy

Spinach

Arugula

Kale

Romaine

Mushrooms

Carrots

Peppers

Celery

Asparagus

Cucumber

Radish

Zucchini

Beets

Squash

Onions

Olives

Fruit

Apples

Citrus

Berries

Banana

Kiwi

Grapes

Peaches

All Melons

Lychee

Tomatoes (Including Sun Dried)

Proteins

Poultry/Eggs (Pasture Raised & Free Range)

Meats (Grass Fed)

Game Meat (Bear, Moose, Rabbit, Deer etc.)

Fish (Wild Caught)

Shellfish (Wild Caught)

Nuts & Nut Butters (Amonds, Cashews, Walnuts, etc.)

Foods you can eat

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Benefits of a Paleo diet

Foods and Drinks to Avoid

Corn
Refined Sugar
Potatoes
Processed Foods (Frozen or Processed Dinners, Packaged Foods and Snacks)
Salty Foods
Soda
Sweetened Beverages
Drinks Sweetened with Artificial Sweeteners
Wine
Beer
Peanuts
Peanut Butter

Healthy Fats

Olive Oil

Avocado

Coconut Oil

Tahini

Butter

Ghee (Made from Grass-fed Butter)

Chia Seeds

Herbs & Spices

Garlic

Ginger

Chilies

Leeks

Fresh Chives

Parsley

Basil

Cilantro

Mustard

Vinegars

Capers

Cacao Powder

Sweeteners

Coconut Sugar

Date Sugar

Raw Honey

Maple Syrup