Post by Justin on Jun 2, 2010 19:23:02 GMT -5
I think a good course to pursue in considering food provisions is to change one's diet paradigm way from conventional wisdom and American diet -- and towards a Paleolithic diet.
There is not a more independent diet than that of the hunter/gatherers:
1. Eliminate sugar – including fruit juices and sports drinks – and all foods that contain flour.
2. Start eating proper fats. Use healthy animal fats or coconut fat to substitute fat calories for carbohydrate calories that formerly came from sugar and flour. Drink whole cream or coconut milk.
3. Eliminate gluten grains. Limit grains like corn and rice, which are nutritionally poor.
4. Eliminate grain and seed derived cooking oils. Cook with ghee, butter, animal fats, or coconut oil.
5. Favor ruminants like beef, lamb and bison for your meat. Eat eggs and some fish.
6. Get daily midday sun or take 2-8000 IU vitamin D daily.
7. Try intermittent fasting or infrequent meals (2 meals a day is best). Don't graze like a herbivore.
8. Adjust your omega 6s and 3s. Pastured (grass-fed) dairy and grass fed beef has a more optimal 6:3 ratio. A teasthingy or two of fish oil daily is good compensatory supplementation if you eat grain-fed beef or no fish.
9. Proper exercise: emphasizing resistance and interval training over long aerobic sessions.
10. Most modern fruit is just a candy bar from a tree. Go easy on bags of sugar like apples. Stick with berries and avoid watermelon as it is pure fructose. Eat in moderation.
11. Eliminate legumes
12. Eliminate all remaining dairy including cheese
No counting, measuring or weighing is required, nor is it encouraged.
If you are in a scarce environment, calories are simply king. Eating enough calories should be the number one rule of a Paleo diet. Foragers that don't eat enough calories die. Also, when you fast – you should not feel hungry. If you do, then you probably aren't ready for intermittent fasting and you need to nourish and heal your body first. How hungry a person is after fasting is a good indicator of health: a Paleo dieter typically doesn’t experience hunger at all.
I think we can only eat our stored products for so long. Eventually our diet will have to come from hunting, farming, and foraging.
There is not a more independent diet than that of the hunter/gatherers:
1. Eliminate sugar – including fruit juices and sports drinks – and all foods that contain flour.
2. Start eating proper fats. Use healthy animal fats or coconut fat to substitute fat calories for carbohydrate calories that formerly came from sugar and flour. Drink whole cream or coconut milk.
3. Eliminate gluten grains. Limit grains like corn and rice, which are nutritionally poor.
4. Eliminate grain and seed derived cooking oils. Cook with ghee, butter, animal fats, or coconut oil.
5. Favor ruminants like beef, lamb and bison for your meat. Eat eggs and some fish.
6. Get daily midday sun or take 2-8000 IU vitamin D daily.
7. Try intermittent fasting or infrequent meals (2 meals a day is best). Don't graze like a herbivore.
8. Adjust your omega 6s and 3s. Pastured (grass-fed) dairy and grass fed beef has a more optimal 6:3 ratio. A teasthingy or two of fish oil daily is good compensatory supplementation if you eat grain-fed beef or no fish.
9. Proper exercise: emphasizing resistance and interval training over long aerobic sessions.
10. Most modern fruit is just a candy bar from a tree. Go easy on bags of sugar like apples. Stick with berries and avoid watermelon as it is pure fructose. Eat in moderation.
11. Eliminate legumes
12. Eliminate all remaining dairy including cheese
No counting, measuring or weighing is required, nor is it encouraged.
If you are in a scarce environment, calories are simply king. Eating enough calories should be the number one rule of a Paleo diet. Foragers that don't eat enough calories die. Also, when you fast – you should not feel hungry. If you do, then you probably aren't ready for intermittent fasting and you need to nourish and heal your body first. How hungry a person is after fasting is a good indicator of health: a Paleo dieter typically doesn’t experience hunger at all.
I think we can only eat our stored products for so long. Eventually our diet will have to come from hunting, farming, and foraging.