Paleo
The Paleo Diet, rooted in pre-agricultural, hunter-gatherer eating habits, promotes lean meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. It excludes grains, legumes, dairy, refined sugar, salt, and processed foods. Similar to Keto and Low Carb, High Fat diets in its exclusion of high-carb foods, Paleo encourages meat and fish consumption while strictly avoiding grains and legumes. Followers believe it facilitates significant weight loss and health improvements, as they consider modern humans genetically mismatched to farming-based diets.
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Paleo Diet
The Paleo Diet, also known as the Paleolithic or Caveman Diet, is based on the belief that modern humans should return to a pre-agricultural, hunter-gatherer diet for optimal health. Followers of this diet believe that many of the health issues today are linked to the Western diet and the consumption of grains, dairy, and processed foods.
The Paleo Diet primarily includes lean meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds — foods that in the past could be obtained by hunting and gathering. A strict Paleo Diet excludes grains, legumes, dairy, refined sugar, salt, and processed foods.
This diet has overlap with other diets such as the Keto Diet and Low Carb, High Fat (LCHF) diet, as they all exclude high-carb foods. However, Paleo is not strictly low-carb and does not require high fat or protein intake. Unlike the Vegan or Vegetarian diets, Paleo encourages the consumption of meat and fish while strictly excluding all grains and legumes.
Followers of the Paleo Diet believe that it can lead to significant weight loss and major improvements in health. They argue that modern humans are genetically mismatched to the modern diet that emerged with farming practices — an idea known as the discordance hypothesis.