fix your diet

Customer from grocery store finds hand grenade hidden among potatoes

so i've spoken before about a diet change, or rather a lifestyle change based on evolutionary theory called the paleo diet, also known as eating like a caveman. actually, prehistoric man didn't live in caves but we'll save that for another time. so the premise of this diet is that our modern human bodies spend thousands of years eating a certain way, eating certain things. and now... well, now we just eat a bunch of crap. i'll admit that i'll eat plenty of crap when no one's watching. just today i took my lunch break at work and went to burger king! got myself an italian chicken sammich COMBO meal! so not only did i eat a deep fried chicken patty with some kind of cheese product, tomato sauce product, bread, i had some fries and a hi-C flashing fruit punch. so gross.

ok. so the paleo diet. here's what you can eat: lean meats and fish, fruits, veggies. most nuts. as much as you want. here's what you can't eat: starchy tubers (potatoes), rice, bread, pastas,DAIRY! all the good stuff. i'm a sinner! so sue me!

it wasnt until about 10000 years ago (advent of agriculture) that wheat was introduced to the diet. incidentally, thats also when laziness started! people didnt have to go out and chase after their food anymore. cuz now theyve got pens with slow walking food and fields of domesticated plants. but before that, people ate non hormonally induced, physically fit animals. all that marbling you see in the steak shows you how unfit the animal was before it was slaughtered. there were plenty of fruits and veggies to go along with it too.

so these prehistoric people were healthy. they got all the protein they needed from the meat, and all the vitamins and minerals from the fruits and veggies. but what about calcium? the thing is: because of the dietary conditions, the body's acid/base balance changes allowing it to retain extant calcium. so even though you eat a lot of cheese, it causes your acid/base balance to lean toward acid causing you to lose more calcium through you urine. makes sense right?

regarding pastas and bread, it seems there are more and more people these days with gluten intolerance. by removing bread and pastas, from the diet, you can stop worrying about that reaction! tada! also, i recently read an article about this MD who conducted an experiment with psychiatric patients on a closed unit. he had full control over their environment including their diets. for four weeks, all gluten products were removed from the diets and the doc saw improvements in behavior. once the gluten was reintroduced, behavior returned.

dont take my word for it. give it a try.

i saw improvements in my energy levels. i was also working out like a madman everyday. but then i got lazy and my cravings for rice and bread and pizza and ice cream got the best of me.

so now i'm going to get back on track and get super sexy... errr healthy again.