Six Reasons to Go Paleo for Mental Health
Six Reasons to Go Paleo for Mental Health
How uncivilizing your diet can make for a happier, healthier brain. Georgia Ede MD https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...o-mental-health Quote:
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Imo, the foods are best eaten with clean sauces, herbs, etc. Minimize AS, bottled concoctions, etc.
Means learning basic cooking skills. |
Ancient Oat Discovery May Poke More Holes in Paleo Diet https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...-in-paleo-diet/
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Dr. Ede once described an onion as a "fruit wearing a vegetable suit" which is just ridiculous, imo, and the kind of thing that turns ordinary people completely off the idea of a low carb diet, which yes, I believe would help many people with mental illness. The question is "low carb/paleo" to what degree? Research is just trickling in about the microbiome and the brain/mental health connection. Is some amount of starch (as per Paul Jaminet) optimal? Or how about resistant starch? My experience is that I feel pretty crappy (more depressed, insomniac) on a very low carb diet but I feel even worse on the SAD. |
Well it would be farsical to think that 10,000 years ago farming was an instantaneous success across the world.
Agriculture EVOLVED . Developing tools, planting techniques, storage of seed, selection and development of larger seeds, or larger roots. Takes generations. Think about a carrot. Pull up Queen's Ann Lace and bite the root. Its a long 3-4 inch pencil lead thick orangy root. It is a wild carrot. A far cry fron the modern varieies that can weigh nearly a pound. Somehow science, or is it people, requires absolutes. Concrete dates cannot be rigid because of an evolutionary process. For general purposes, dividing evolution into neat pockets makes learning and understanding history easier. Absolutes cannot be literally applied to agricutural development. Hence, 10,000 years ago was a noteable change to adding the "culture "of plants for our human use in a significant way. In the years prior, it was developing. Just as hunting and gathering continued on , side by side agriculture,, until modern times when it has nearly petered out. |
We all have diverse requirements of an optimal diet based on many factors. For those human tribes spanning the globe during the Paleolithic period, there certainly had to be diversity based on the foods available in the various regions where people lived. Certainly, there were fruits, vegetables, and wild grains consumed in certain seasons. As for those who question diet diversity, I have one question: What is a Mediterranean diet?
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I didn't know that about Queen Anne's lace! We have a lot of it growing around here. Can you eat it?
When Tim Steele had a blog (other than his potato diet book blog) he convinced me that "paleo" wasn't as cut and dried as it's presented by some. I recall him talking about cattail tubers, tiger nuts, and honey among other things. It makes sense that people would have eaten whatever looked edible to them, finding out the hard way with certain foods such as mushrooms, when they made a mistake. I can't find the exact article now that I read but it was about these "baby bottles" https://www.dw.com/en/scientists-un...many/a-50587532. The archeologist noted that despite them having been found periodically for years, no one figured out what they were used for until women scientists got involved. :D When they made replicas, they tried them out on babies, and sure enough they fit their hands perfectly and functioned well. |
I'm pretty sure no one way back in time skipped any available food source they could discover to stay alive. Ancient diets high or low in carbs, fat, etc. We hear about traditional, for example Asian, diets with a lot of carbs and old-time people not becoming metabolically deranged eating them. But add sugar and processed junk to those diets and boom! Epidemic of diabetes and the like. Like many I was well-meaningly raised on foods I still recognize as healthy but also a lot of sugar and other refined carbs, trans fats and all that processed stuff people had no clue at the time were so bad for all of us. Without all that exposure to sugar etc. might I have been able to consume a high starch diet today while remaining metabolically healthy? Maybe. But can I now? No. A whole foods paleo diet is far too much carbohydrate, as are many keto plans. Regardless of what ancient people were able to eat, each of us has to figure out, with our own unique bodies and past metabolic assaults, what we can each handle now.
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Hah! Great question! You’ve got Italy, France, Spain, etc...all very different cuisines. Much tastier than SAD, too. |
JL, I know a woman that subsisted on what nature and a gun provided. It was not by choice but necessity. Her mom could field dress a deer in record time. She no longer needs to aquire food that wsy, she says its hard work. She lives in the Virginia area.
Edible foods are passed down generation to generation. Look at what animals will eat for clues as well. Use reliable sources to learn what is edible. |
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Funny because city people don't even realize that country people are still hunting a lot of their food.. |
nope. My mother lives on a big island. the joke is tge backside deer population is regularly thinned. The otherside gets their shrubbery and gardens thinned by overpopulation.
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The wild hogs will just mix with our herd while grazing. They are so destructive they'll dig up a pasture to the point that you can't drive over the area much less do anything else with it so needless to say they have to be eradicated because they multiply like rabbits and they have huge tusks. Usually we will call a neighbor because they know how to butcher them, we don't. They keep the meat for area volunteer firefighter fundraisers.
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A lot of the big city types will pretend to hunt - by that, I mean that they'll book a hunting party at a farm with a hunting lodge (the farm next to my brother's is one place like that). The owner of the hunting lodge farm will set out piles of corn near the deer blinds to attract the deer during hunting season - all the city-slicker hunters need to do is sit back and wait for the deer to show up, then the entire hunting party can shoot at once. As soon as the first shot is fired, any deer not hit will be terrified and scatter to the wooded areas on nearby farms to hide. My brother (and other local farmers) will do real hunting, but that's made so much more difficult by the fact that the deer are so terrified that they're hiding in whatever brush there is in the wooded areas. Before long, they're hungry and heading back to where they know there's plenty to eat though, only to be shot at and scared away again. Rinse and repeat during the entire hunting season. There's not enough deer overall removed by the hunting parties to protect the crops - but the way the hunting parties are conducted also makes it much more difficult for other farmers to remove enough to thin the herds to any worthwhile degree. The saddest part about this is that since the city slicker hunters aren't hunting for much needed food, they're partying the entire time - sitting around and drinking beer until everyone in their party has finally bagged a deer, even if it takes all day. Meanwhile, the deer they killed is sitting around in the back of a pickup truck all that time. It's hours and hours before they ever take that deer to be properly chilled and processed (the city slickers certainly don't know how to butcher it themselves). This is why venison so often tastes "gamey" - it's not that it's a wild animal, it's that it's been allowed to sit around without proper chilling for far too long, and it's half spoiled by the time it's processed. DB knows better - when he can manage to get a deer, he immediately takes it to be processed, and that meat is VERY GOOD. |
Do they at least field dress it? I hope....
Many places here won't process anything with hair, it has to be at least partially butchered/skinned. |
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As far as I know, they gut it before tossing it in the back of their pickup, since that would eliminate a fair amount of weight to lift into the truck, but I couldn't guarantee they actually do that either. Pretty sure that the local processors don't require that the animal be skinned first though. It's never good when something vital to sound ecological wildlife management is turned into a business. DB has allowed trusted friends to hunt on his farm for decades, but it's just been an exercise in frustration since the guy with the hunting party lodge started that business. |
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