Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Paleolithic Diet and My Testimony

Neither of these has anything really to do with the other. I like the new paleolithic diet based on lean meat, fruits and vegetables, and most notably absence of grains and legumes.
I also have noticed that I get a very strong feeling when I listen to LDS leaders and others bear testimony of Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, and the First Vision.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Paleolithic Diet

So, I have been researching the likely diets of our ancestors and intuitively and based on research I am coming to the conclusion that our bodies are designed for lean meats and eggs, fruits and veggies and some root veggies. Domesticated fatty meats, grains and legumes apparently don't work well in our bodies, based on the number of discomforts on one end of the spectrum and life threatening diseases on the other. Our current ancestors had about one million years of evolution eating the aforementioned foods vs. the relatively recent onset of cooked grains and legumes in the past 10,000 or so years. So non domesticated animal meat with no or little salt and lots of herbal spice, potatoes and carrots, fruits and vegetables seem to be the foods of choice. So much of our current American diet is laden with salt, fat, and sugar all of which apparently was not a part of our ancestors' diet. We exercise the hell out of ourselves trying to compensate for all this physiologic nightmare we swallow all day long.
http://www.beyondveg.com/cordain-l/grains-leg/grains-legumes-1b.shtml