TOP 5 PALEO DIET TIPS TO KEEP YOU ALL TIME FIT

We are what we eat and our diet plays a massive role in the way we feel on a daily basis. Often we don't realize the damage we are doing to our health by eating certain foods and not eating enough of others.


Remember these 5 tips in mind when looking at your current diet to ensure that you are right down the path of healthy eating.

1. Eat Your Vegetables - The '5-a-day' recommendation is actually an old school of thought, and  'the more the better' is now considered the way forward. For optimum health you need a solid amount of vegetables in your diet.
2. Watch The Sugar - White sugar is highly addictive. This stuff is quite literally 'white poison' and contributes greatly to dental deterioration, diabetes, hyperglycaemia and hypoglycaemia, heart disease, arteriosclerosis, mental illness, depression, hypertension, cancer and more.
3. Stay Away From Processed Foods - Processed food is useless to the body. It's full of chemicals, preservatives and alien substances that the body cannot digest properly or use for any cause of good. Processed foods cause high levels of toxicity which contribute to a large range of health problems.
4. Avoid Dairy - A large part of the world's population is genetically unable to properly digest dairy products. In addition to causing an insulin spike and being processed and homogenized in such a way that is unsuitable to it's natural structure, dairy also increases the body's level of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) which is a known cancer promoter.
5. Don't Even Think About Grains - Grains were never part of our ancestors diets and they really don't agree with our digestive system. Research has shown that 30-40% of people of European descent are gluten intolerant and effectively making themselves sick. You can easily get your fiber and Vitamin B elsewhere.

If you are following the paleo foundations then all of the above are easy! But if you are finding your fruit &  veggies intake is low and processed foods are creeping into your diet too often, or you would just like a broaden range of paleo recipes - be sure to check out these Paleo Cookbooks:

UNCONTROLLED SUGAR AND TRANSFAT CONSUMPTION INCREASES HUMAN DEPRESSION

Your mental state and your food-intake are likely best of friends and from what we consume in our daily  lives reflects the outcome of what our behavior will become tomorrow whether we like it or not. So, if you want to become what you most likely would want to be in the future, you better watch out your diet or else it's less likely you're going to have your dream life come true. 

A research study was conducted in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain about the relation of sugar and trans-fat consumption on human behavioral pattern. The researchers studied a group of almost 9,000 people for between 2-6 years as a part of a long-term, ongoing study. Excluded from the study were people with extremely high or low daily caloric intake, or had obesity-related diseases.

Participants were asked to report how frequently they eat a given list of foods ie. fastfoods (trans-fats) such as  hamburgers, sausages and pizza; and sweet goods such as muffins, doughnuts and croissant.

At the beginning of the study, no one had been diagnosed with depression, or have taken antidepressants. However, by the end of the study almost 500 had been diagnosed with depression or have antidepressants in their system.

The new study showed that, consumers of fast food and sweets, compared with those who eat little or none, were 51 percent more likely to develop depression. The researchers saw that as depression levels increased, so did the amount of junk food eaten. The more depressed you are the more likely you are to consume large amounts of junk food. The correlation could also go the other way -the more fast food was consumed, the greater the risk of depression.

Usually people who eat high levels of  trans-fat junk foods have personalities of being single or unattached, less active and have a poor dietary habits ie. consumes less fruits and vegetables and healthy fats like nuts, fish and olive oil. Heavy cigarette-smokers and workaholics (spending more than 45 hours of week work) are likewise manifesting to have a depressed way of living.

It's better to follow a controlled dietary plan than having nothing along the way. Balanced diet and proper exercise are always recommended by experts but for those regular people who are beginning to adapt a new way of healthy living, the paleo diet plan is recommendable by doctors, dieticians and even athletes and cross-fit trainers.

FOODS TO AVOID ON THE PALEO DIET - SUGAR

 

FOODS TO AVOID ON THE PALEO DIET - TRANS FATS

 

Truth About Sugar - The Paleo Diet

    For years, we've heard that if you want to reduce your chances of getting heart disease and other chronic diseases, then you must follow a diet that is low in saturated fats and cholesterol. However, recent studies suggest that we should actually scale back our intake of added sugars in our diet.

    Added sugars are those sugars that manufacturers put in to our food during processing to enhance flavour. You can identify those added sugars within an ingredient list - they can come in the form of corn syrup, dextrose, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice concentrate, glucose-fructose, honey and sucrose, just to name a few. In fact, high- fructose corn syrup, often under the guise of HFCS, is predominately used as a sweetener of choice because it is so cheap.

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     What is also interesting about this study is that people with the highest intake of refined sugars actually had higher blood fats and triple the risk of having a low level of good cholesterol (HDL). The more sugar you consume, the higher the bad blood fats in your arteries and the higher the risk of heart disease and other diseases. Excessive sugar in our diets has also been linked to higher calorie intake, higher body weight, higher obesity rates, increased risk of diabetes and a lower intake of vitamins and minerals.

    It's estimated that the average Canadian consumes about 16 teaspoons of added sugar per day, which is way too much. Did you know that a can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar? Even beverages with artificial sweeteners or diet drinks are equally dangerous.

    In addition to soft drinks and fruit drinks, added sugars are found in baked goods, chocolate bars, breakfast cereals, salad dressings, frozen dinners, peanut butter, pastas, breads - and the list goes on and on.

    So, what to do?

• Check the ingredient label on the foods that you eat to see how much sugar is contained in each serving. You might be surprised to see how many different types of refined sugars are added to the product.

•  Replace soft drinks and fruit punch with real fruit juice (you may also want to have the actual fruit instead of the fruit juice), or make homemade smoothies with frozen fruit and low-fat milk. You can even use almond or rice milk as a substitute for milk.
• Also, choose boxed cereals made from whole grains with less than 8 grams of sugar and 3 or more grams of fiber. 
• Limit sweet treats to once a week and reduce sugar in your recipes.

    After doing this for over 18 years, I have found that the majority of individuals struggle with their weight because they consume way too much sugar. Bad fats and excessive portions is often not the culprit. So, if you want to lose weight and stay healthy in 2012, check ingredient labels and scale back your sugar consumption. Furthermore, you may follow healthy sweet recipes like the Paleo Sweets Recipe.

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