Here is yesterdays article in the West Australian Newspaper. I find it disturbing that Margaret says I think the basics of his message are right and we are all eating too many carbohydrates... Then why on earth do the dietary guidelines of this country promote the heavy consumption of them as the largest food group to eat from??? Petes way Pete Evans wants to overhaul the way we eat and the secret, he says, is going old school. The celebrity chef from Sevens smash hit cooking show My Kitchen Rules is touring the nation urging us to find a way back to our paleo roots. The paleo diet is based on eating the way our ancestors did - that is, before agriculture, processing, pasteurising, refining, additives and preservatives became the norm in food production. Its this back-to-basics diet that Evans says will make us healthier - and eradicate many illnesses we assume we have to live with. The paleo way promotes the minimisation of sugary and starchy foods, the moderation of protein intake, the liberal consumption of fibrous vegetables and greens (raw, lightly cooked and/or fermented/cultured), nuts, seeds, eggs (if tolerated) and dietary natural fat to satisfy the appetite and support the healthiest brain and nervous system. An occasional, very small, amount of seasonal fruit is purely optional, Evans explains. The diet totally avoids grains, legumes, conventional dairy products, conventionally raised meats, non-organic produce, GMOs and processed foods. We embrace 100 per cent organic, humanely raised pasture-fed-and-finished meats and organs, wild-caught seafood from unpolluted waters, free-range poultry and pork (with no hormones or antibiotics), wild game, organically grown produce, nuts, seeds and healthy sources of natural fats - in other words, it includes foods that wouldve looked like food to someone wandering around 10,000 years ago with a loincloth and a spear. The paleo way is literally the most natural dietary approach on earth and the one likeliest to support optimum physical and emotional health for the best quality of life. We lost stature, bone density, overall health, immune integrity, and even brain size once we adopted modern-day agricultural foods. Some critics have slammed his mantra as a fad and others have claimed that the idea of cutting out food groups is downright dangerous. But that hasnt stopped Evans; he wants the rule book on what we should and shouldnt be eating revisited - and rewritten. No human people group in the history of the human species has ever consumed a diet remotely resembling what the current Australian and US dietary guidelines promote as optimal. Furthermore, the widespread implementation of these guidelines has done little to improve the health of our society, he tells Mind+Body. The time is well passed for these guidelines to be rewritten. The Dietitians Association of Australia is not entirely happy with Evans message but spokeswoman and manager of The Nutrition Specialists, Margaret Hays, agrees that something needs to be done to turn back the alarming rates of obesity and food-related lifestyle diseases afflicting our society. There is no escaping the fact that our population is getting fatter and something needs to change, maybe Pete Evans message will shock us into change by getting people to rethink what they are eating, she says. I think the basics of his message are right and we are all eating too many carbohydrates but I think his blanket statement can be confusing for people who are already so confused about eating. Ms Hays claims the paleo diet can be expensive. There have been six studies done on the paleo diet and they are inconclusive, whereas the dietary guidelines are based on 55,000 international studies - but we do acknowledge that we are in poor health and we need to change the way we are eating. Evans says the paleo way is the solution - fusing the purest foods, acknowledged by research to be the optimum for health, easing the load of modern life by reducing the risk of ingesting pollutants and embracing the latest studies on human longevity - making it the perfect lifestyle choice. Once you go paleo, he says, you wont go back. https://au.news.yahoo/thewest/lifestyle/a/24453557/petes-way/
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:15:04 +0000
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