Why Does the Paleo Diet Work?

The Paleo Diet (also known as the Caveman Diet) is a diet meant to optimize nutrition by simulating the original human diet, which consists primarily of grass-fed meats, seafood, fruits, vegetables, and nuts. This is based on new scientific evidence which has found that the grains and processed foods we are primarily dependent on, are lacking in 13 key nutrients. On top of that, the average human life expectancy actually went down drastically when agriculture was introduced. By reducing recent additions to the human diet as well as artificial foods and returning to the dietary staples that humans were, and still are, built to survive on, one can counteract the majority of modern, chronic illnesses, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune problems.

Our friends at CrossFit Scottsdale are bringing the news to Arizona, using the Paleo Diet as the nutritional foundation of their intensive exercise and fitness programs. They lay out the basics like this:

·         All of the lean meat, fish, seafood, eggs you can eat (Note that by lean meat, we primarily mean grass-fed beef, which is much lower in fat than feed-lot or grain-fed, much nutritionally superior and closer to the meat our early ancestors ate. For more on the benefits of grass-fed beef click here, and for help on choosing the best and safest fish and seafood, check out our Wild Caught Salmon vs Farm Raised page.

·         All of the non-starchy vegetables you can eat

·         Plenty of fruit

·         Moderate healthy fats

·         Moderate nuts and seeds

·         No grains or cereals at all

·         No legumes

·         No dairy products (eggs are meat)

·         No processed foods – make it yourself!

·         No sugars. Agave, organic honey, molasses, pure spun golden sunshine….it doesn’t matter. They are all equally bad for you.

·         No artificial sweeteners. These are not food! Creepy laboratory products with sketchy safety records, artificial sweeteners have been shown to produce an insulin response (On that note, it probably wouldn’t hurt to avoid most artificial additives, including nitrates, and nutrient deprived table salts.

If you’re thinking of using the Paleo Diet to improve your health and well-being then Topline Foods has got your back. We provide the best in organic and unprocessed foods, as close to nature as we can get it, and deliver it all over the greater Phoenix metropolitan area as well as shipping to the rest of Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California including Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County as well as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City!