The Paleo Diet

Recently I started learning about the Paleo elimination diet. Its basically about how our bodies evolved over millions of years by eating specific types of natural foods. These days obesity and diabetes is becoming an epidemic. Why? Diabetes is usually blamed on poor eating of too much sugary foods but grains produce the same insulin spike as sugars do since starches are metabolized into sugars. So why aren't grains on this list? The Paleo Solution asks these questions.

I am looking for more clinical data on grain heavy diets and how they affect our health.I have been unable to find any clinical data or studies done on grain heavy diets. High starch vegetable diets however seem to be unhealthy for you as the starches are converted in sugar in the body which is nearly the same.

The majority of the information in the book I found to be very convincing  and overall his theory seems sound. I completely agree with his advice on eating a large amount of vegetables and fruit,nuts with lean protein sources,low sugar intake and plenty of exercise. There are many other studies like The China Study that have been done that have proven this. See "The China Study"

Unfortunately there are many statements by the author on what constitutes healthy fats like flax oil and vegetable oils to be very inaccurate. The authors a stance on a very low salt diet has been proven to be true as high salt diets have been shown to be a factor in high blood pressure but i felt he was doing a little too much scaremongering. Some other advice like you can't eat too much protein is just plain wrong and

Overall a quick read with a plan for you to take action on the information within the book. Its hard to go wrong with this book
The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health