Eric Canto
Professor Daly
EXSC-3105
17 September 2016
Healthy Eating Regimens It is very ironic how the most obese country in the world continues to promote the most variety of different diet-trends. However, an increasingly amount of new eating regimens seem to come into the public fairly often, and most of them are very popular. Whether it be to lose weight, gain weight, improve performance, or just support one’s health, there seems to be hundreds of ways to change the way we eat in order to reach those goals. Three diets that are especially interesting and suspicious are the paleo, gluten-free, and raw food diet. The paleo diet claims to mimic the diets of Paleolithic humans, the gluten-free diet completely removes a certain nutrient from a usual diet, and the raw food diet prohibits the cooking of one’s food. Although these diets may seem tremendously odd, they are increasingly popular, and provide the promised results to many people. However, regardless if the regimen proves to give certain people the results they want, the real mystery is what these diets are exactly doing to our bodies. Eating like an early human seems impossible, cutting a certain nutrient seems unhealthy, and not cooking your food seems very odd—so how can these be healthy diets? There is still much to learn, and much to research about these trending eating regimens that are taking the country by storm.
The paleo diet is an eating regimen that essentially goes by the guidelines of what a
The “Paleo-diet” in short can be described as a diet plan mimicking the diet of the hunter-gatherer species that lived in the Paleolithic era. The Paleo-diet consists of animal proteins, plants, fruits, and nuts, while excluding all processed foods, dairy, and certain grains. One reason the Paleo-diet was created is that in theory, if one adheres to the Paleo-diet, they will minimize their chances of getting some modern diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease. Another reason the Paleo-diet was formed is because it is said to help with weight loss.
The Paleo Diet is eating anything except processed food and grain or any base grain products. A big saying is “If the cavemen did not eat it, neither should you.” Meat, eggs, and fish are all encouraged in this diet. This is a low carbohydrate diet. This diet is also known as the Caveman diet because of the foods that are allowed to be eaten in this diet. Having to constantly check your calories will not be a problem. The diet appeals to nature.
In today’s world, one cannot watch a thirty-minute television show without being bombarded with commercials promoting the latest, “Breakthrough Health Kick.” The Paleo Diet, Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, along with a vast number of diets on the market has skewed the idea of healthy eating. The textbook, Nutrition from Science to You, states, “Healthy eating means you need to balance, vary, and moderate your nutrient intake.” Sadly, when I took two days to analyze my own diet I found a lack of balance, variety, and the ability to eat in moderation.
What Is The Paleo Diet? The Paleo Diet - caveman diet, paleolithic diet, stone age diet, or hunter-gatherer diet - is the popular diet of today which is basically eating foods that a caveman would eat so when people ask you "What is the Paleo Diet?" , think of the word paleo from the paleolithic period what cavemen eat. Cavemen don't eat bags of crisps, hotdogs or candy.
Eliminating these hazardous foods from your diet and substituting the varieties that your body is actually adapted to eating lies at the heart of the Paleo diet. Modern humans are really just cavemen who are eating the horribly inadequate foods thrust upon them by the so-called agricultural revolution. Freeing your diet from these harmful types of food and focusing instead on the food types that our bodies are built to handle restores much of the control over your health and weight that was lost to today's dietary products. Think about foods carefully and whether or not they would have been available to cavemen before you set tooth to anything. Grains were only eaten following the establishment of farms ten thousand years ago or less.
The Paleo Diet: It 's common enough in our industry, but how much do you really know about it? Let 's take some time to explore this subject with a little depth.
The paleo diet is trying to get you to cut out everything we eat today and eat what they ate over 15,000 years ago. They think we ate healthier 15,000 years ago than we do today. Eating lots of nuts, fruits, meats from only grass-fed animals, salmon, and vegetables. While cutting out most of dairy, sugar, salt, grains, and beans.
The paleo diet is a weight loss diet that has harmful implications for young individuals. It is imperative that the positive stigma surrounding the new diet is removed and people are aware of the harmful side effects of the diet before its spreads into a global phenomenon. The concept of the paleo diet is extremely flawed because most people during the Palaeolithic era had an average lifespan of 30 years whereas the average lifespan of a human now in Australia is 82.1 years hence proving that the current diet is much healthier than that of Palaeolithic ancestors.
As its name suggests, the Paleo Diet gets its inspiration through the Paleolithic era, when man survived like a hunter-gatherer. The diet, originated by Loren Cordain, health professor with the Colorado State University, is dependant on a radical distinct thought. Professor Cordain argues that considering that the human genome hasn't evolved over the last 50,000 years possibly even, there exists reason to imagine that this most natural diet for man is what his caveman ancestors ate. In other words, once and for all health one should survive on fish, meats and eggs from grass-fed and naturally raised livestock, vegetables, roots, fruits and berries, seeds and nuts.
Paleo Diet The paleo diet is structured around how our ancestors consumed food. This diet was developed by Loren Cordain,PhD, a researcher from Colorado State University who started doing studies in the 1970s. Humans evolved on a diet very different from today’s eating habits and therefore the Paleo supporters argue to be healthier, leaner, and stronger. “A quick and pithy definition of the Paleo diet is if the cavemen didn’t eat it then you shouldn’t either,” says Academy Spokesperson Jim White.
The rise of health concerns continues to proliferate throughout the country from increasing obesity rates to the astonishing number of our population with high blood pressure or diabetes. It’s enough to make anyone want to second-guess everything they eat and put in into their bodies. We ask our doctor’s, and ourselves “what can be done?” Eat right, and exercise. Those are the parameters for maintaining a healthy life. So it’s only natural that across the board we’ve got numerous exercise programs to help you lose weight fast or build lean muscle. Then we’ve got every diet under the sun, the no carb diet, high protein diet and all juice diets. Through research we can find and utilize programs and healthy habits that we can practice
Obesity basically means having too much body fat. Not being overweight for your height, having too much muscle, or water in your body. What exactly is obesity? “Obesity is a condition that is associated with having an excess of body fat, defined by genetic and environmental factors that are difficult to control when dieting. Obesity is classified as having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or greater. BMI is a tool used to measure obesity. Obesity increases your risk of developing related conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and sleep apnea, to name a few. Many individuals are affected by obesity and are not aware of it” (O.A.C, 2016). Causes of obesity vary from person to person, but most are from the same reasons. Taking in more calories than your body can burn leads to obesity because your body stores the unused calories as fat. Typical causes are eating too much food than your body can use, drinking too much alcohol, and not getting enough exercise. Many obese people who lose large amounts of weight and gain it back think it is their fault. They blame themselves for not having the willpower to keep the weight off. Many people regain more weight than they lost. Today, we know that biology is a big reason why some people cannot keep the weight off. Some people who live in the same place and eat the same foods become obese, while others do not. Our bodies have a complex system to help keep our
I have learned that it is important to research obesity because it addresses the different angles of health, the impact that obesity has on many cultures, how obesity has resulted in life threating disease and even death. In addition, from the research that I found on obesity, I found it to be not just a personal issue, rather it shines a light on the concept of the thin ideal, social perception and the influence on media reporting of obesity.
The everyday routines of life can and will be more difficult if encumbered with obesity.
Obesity is a condition in which the over accumulation of adipose fat tissue causes the weight of a person to increase abnormally. Their weight exceeds by 20%, as a factor of their ideal body weight. According to recent analysis, statistics show that more than one third of the world’s population is targeted by obesity. Research shows that overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. Obesity occurs greatly amongst adults who are 18 years or older. An estimated 600 million adults were obese out of the 1.9 billion that were overweight, around the world in 2014. One in three adults in Mexico, New Zealand and United States are obese, and one in four adults in Australia, Canada, Chile and Hungary are obese. In contrast, rates of obesity are much lower in Asian countries, where approximately 2-4% of adults have obesity. In countries such as Mexico and the United States, Latino and Africans have the highest rates of obesity amongst all the individuals. However, along with adults, statistics show that the rates for obesity are also high among children within and below the age of 5. As calculated in 2013, the number of children across the world that were either overweight or obese was 42 million. Since then, the rates have increased by 30% more in in low- and middle-income countries than in developed countries. Due to the fact that this condition continues at higher rates across the world, several organizations, such as the World Health Organization, are working with and