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New food craze round these parts - Stone Age food. No dairy (but rather weirdly some dishes have cream in them - don't ask me) No wheat, carbs Just veg (no root veg), nuts and meat/fish. Here's the wiki - [link url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet ]Link[/link] I like meat and fish. Anyone tried it. Anyone follow it religiously? Are you dead? Edited by morriss at 14:18:22 10-10-2012 |
Stone Age food or the Paleolithic Diet
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morriss 71,290 posts
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Heard about this last year, seems logical enough but it cuts out everything I love. Which is unfortunately everything. 
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It's been a food craze for the past decade or so. It's incredibly good if you have IBS or something, but that's about it. And it basically means you can't go to restaurants. -
sport 14,210 posts
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Registered 12 years agoBeen around for ages. You gotta be pretty disciplined to stick to it (more so than most other diets). -
Is it not just a variation on the whole low GI thing?
Pretty much every diet in recent years basically boils down to "don't eat carbs". -
Zomoniac 9,638 posts
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Registered 14 years agokalel wrote:
Low GI allows certain grains and root vegetables (and doesn't approve of some fruits as well), there's some overlap but it's not too similar.
Is it not just a variation on the whole low GI thing?
Pretty much every diet in recent years basically boils down to "don't eat carbs".
I tried the no carbs/keto thing but it's way too much effort. I have, however, replaced all my bread, pasta and rice with wholegrain versions and have definitely noticed a big improvement, both in digestion and quantity (I presume the fibre and whatnot is filling as I seem to need about a third less brown pasta to satisfy than I did white). -
Benno 11,700 posts
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Registered 13 years agoSounds like way too much effort, life is too short -
Zomoniac 9,638 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBenno wrote:
Some (myself included) would argue that it's disproportionately shorter if you don't take small, sensible measures to eat well.
Sounds like way too much effort, life is too short
But paleo is excessive. -
Carlo 20,015 posts
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Registered 13 years agomorriss wrote:
I did try it about 2 million years ago, but gave up when McDonald's came to my neck of the woods and my favourite stone tool broke.
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Benno 11,700 posts
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Registered 13 years agoZomoniac wrote:
Dont give me that, what is it about dairy and root vegetables in isolation thats going to increase my mortality rate?
Benno wrote:
Some (myself included) would argue that it's disproportionately shorter if you don't take small, sensible measures to eat well.
Sounds like way too much effort, life is too short
But paleo is excessive. -
Zomoniac 9,638 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBenno wrote:
I never said they would in isolation, I wasn't specifically referring to paleo or any particular food type, just that not giving any regard to diet at all is a false economy. It wasn't a personal slight at you, just passing comment.
Zomoniac wrote:
Dont give me that, what is it about dairy and root vegetables in isolation thats going to increase my mortality rate?
Benno wrote:
Some (myself included) would argue that it's disproportionately shorter if you don't take small, sensible measures to eat well.
Sounds like way too much effort, life is too short
But paleo is excessive. -
DaM 17,058 posts
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Registered 16 years agoClogged arteries with the dairy, and explosive wind with the root vegetables. -
elstoof 19,773 posts
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Registered 13 years agoThere's a few caveman diets out there for weight training. The theory is cavemen were big and strong, that must be because of their diet. It's hard to get woolly mammoth steaks round my way though. -
DaM 17,058 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAll these diets just involve calorie reduction. Just reduce portions a wee bit, eat more fruit and veg, cut down on the crap and do a bit of exercise.
That's how I keep my lithe greyhound-like figure and 6 pack. -
robthehermit 6,472 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI need to diet. My portion control is shit though. Mrs Hermit thinks you could reasonably feed 3 people with the amount I eat for my evening meal. Probably explains why I weigh 50% more than I did 10 years ago. -
Metalfish 9,191 posts
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Registered 13 years ago"Cavemen" ate starchy roots quite a bit, making the thought processes behind this a sack of old bollocks.
Reduce you salt intake, increase the proportion of veg in your meals and, as said above, eat more fibre. It's silly how complicated various fads try to make nutrition when the underlying biochemistry is so good at converting compounds into other ones that as long as you're getting the basics, you're probably going to be alright. The evidence for this is just how long people can go on eating crap before it becomes a problem. -
elstoof 19,773 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI remember reading the theory somewhere that the advent of cooking all these otherwise indigestible foods and opening up all the nutrients they contain was the catalyst for our evolution into homo sapien. So there you have it, you can be a chiselled, toned Neanderthal or east those spuds and become an intellectual fat knacker. Tough call. -
minky-kong 13,476 posts
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Registered 10 years agoLast girl I saw was on this diet. She ditched me last week so by my warped logic I think everyone who is on this diet is a cunt. -
morriss 71,290 posts
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Registered 14 years agoApparently there's this theory that it takes a long, long time for our body to adjust to different foodstuffs and that stone age food is best for us as eating dairy and industrial foods is actually going against what our bodies are used to.
Or something.
I'm not actually thinking of going on the diet per se, just going to let it inspire a bit, I think. -
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localnotail 23,072 posts
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Registered 9 years agoIike the whole graze diet thing of nuts & fruit, do that a lot during the day, works well, avoids sleepy patches. I wouldn't go substituting coconut oil in for butter/marg though, it's really high in the bad kind of cholesterol. -
thelzdking 7,444 posts
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Registered 9 years agoHealth as fashion. -
kinky_mong wrote:
Nah, you are right.
Last girl I saw was on this diet. She ditched me last week so by my warped logic I think everyone who is on this diet is a cunt.
Prejudice #56: diets are for cunts. -
chopsen 19,993 posts
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Registered 13 years agosport wrote:
I know! Since the stone age, right?!?!
Been around for ages.
Anyway, sounds bollocks.
Most faddy diets like this work by being so restrictive that you inevitably reduce your calorie intake because the range of stuff you can eat makes you bored of eating. I remember watching a Horizon documentary on the Adkins diet where they did a study that showed that did the very same thing. And yeah, low GI is the new in thing. There is some evidence for it, fucked if I'm bothered reading it though. -
Low GI stuff is, like the paleo stuff, great for IBS and whatnot. I genuinely feel much healthier, more alert and generally better if I massively cut down on carbs.
But on the flipside it's also so much effort.
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jonsaan 26,774 posts
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Registered 12 years agoMy wife said she wanted to try this so I whacked her over the head and dragged her off by the hair. -
Carlo wrote:
heh..i've evolved beyond it too
morriss wrote:
I did try it about 2 million years ago, but gave up when McDonald's came to my neck of the woods and my favourite stone tool broke.
Anyone tried it. Anyone follow it religiously? Are you dead?.gif)
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