Get In Great Shape With The Paleo Diet

By Andrew Simpson

Back in the ages when the average human had to catch a fish and then worry about fighting away a saber-tooth tiger for his dinner, the medical complications that plague modern society were unheard of. Obesity, heart diseases, diabetes, indigestion, hemorrhoids, and other medical complications are a direct result of the poor diet of modern humans. If you want to eliminate fat and health concerns, choose the food that our forefathers did.

The majority of calories that the average American takes in come from corn in one fashion or another. A hamburger from a fast food restaurant is about eighty percent corn based. Since corn is a grain and not a vegetable, anything from corn syrup in a soft drink to corn-fed beef is simply perpetuating the unhealthy effects of the sugar within the grain.

By consuming artificial ingredients, furthermore, you never know exactly what it is you are eating. Industrial solvents and solutions can be applied to any food so long as it is called an artificial ingredient, without any way of the consumer knowing exactly what they are putting into their body.

Artificial ingredients and corn-based products are a major reason why the majority of Americans are overweight. Managing your calorie intake by choosing only natural food choices is the best way to trim your love handles and eliminate any extra chins. What makes the paleo diet such a viable alternative to factory-farm grown food?

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What is the Paleo Diet? As the name suggests, it is the food choices that would have been available in the Stone Age, a time when your next meal came from scouring the forest floor in the hopes of finding mushrooms, roots, eggs, or an animal scampering about. No matter what your favorite foods are, odds are good the Paleo Diet allows you to eat them.

Nearly every food option you look at has one of these processed nightmares. Soda, for instance, is effectively a can or bottle full of pure sugar. Artificial foods like peanut butter have so much oil that they can disrupt the entire process of metabolizing a meal. Preservatives used in foods tend to be more sugar or salt on top of the food itself.

The results of modern, artificial foods speak for themselves. Only one in three Americans are not overweight, and only two in three are not obese. The solution is not maintaining an artificially low calorie count, but maintaining a calorie count low in artificial food. When your body can process and utilize every aspect of its meals, it creates no fat to be stored.

What is in the paleo diet? Simply put, everything: everything that you could have eaten if you lived in the time of the Ice age. If you enjoy eating ham with pineapple, worry not, for your ancestors could have caught themselves a wild boar and then used a pineapple to garnish the feast. If you love seafood soups with cilantro and mushrooms, knock yourself out with the shrimps and mussels of our choosing.

There are so many options available in the Paleo diet that it is easier to tell you what is not available. The syrups and grains and sugars that comprise so much of the "fast food" diet are off limits, since in the Stone Age nobody has heard of cupcakes with no-touch frosting.

This does not mean, however, that you cannot substitute many of your favorite choices to make what you enjoy on the Paleo Diet. Wheat flour, for instance, was not an option of the ancients, but you can make baked goodies out of almond flour, coconut milk, and honey to satisfy a sweet tooth.

Trimming your fat by using the Paleo Diet requires no counting of calories. All you need to do is eliminate the foods that lead to fat-buildup and you are sure to watch a lifetime's worth of soda and pizza fade away. Best of all, you feel better as you look better due to the quality of nutrition.

If you have struggled with losing weight, do not think about cutting calories. Instead, think about cutting artificial food choices so that you are left with the meals our forefathers ate and enjoyed. Only good ingredients going in means that your body will burn up the fat stored from a lifetime of sodas and pizzas, leaving you trim and in good shape.

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