John Welbourn and the Paleo diet

Ten year veteran NFL player John Welbourn speaks about the Paleo Diet.

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[TheCavemanRunneth]

@coolintake

I deeply believe that paleo is for everyone. Unfortunately it requires a level of commitment and change that few people can realistically handle. The big idea behind it is that if you no long eat foods that we were not genetically designed to eat (rice being one of them), it will shift your biochemistry to burn fat as a primary fuel source as opposed to carbohydrates. Given a few weeks to adjust and you will have far more energy than you do now, as for disappearing, look at him ^^

[kf1000]

5000 calories per day (for ultra-athletes only) on the paleolithic diet is simple. Just add several whole avocados (at 300 calories each), and snack on almonds and walnuts at 200 calories per small handful. Several bananas per day at 150 calories each, olive oil on greens,  and eat lots of steak and eggs and fish and fruit.

If you need 5000 calories, it's easy, especially if you snack all day long on healthy, calorie-rich natural paleo foods.

[MormonManUtah]

1st figure out what you are allergic too. As we age our allergies are more pronounced. MANY people are gluten intolerant. 2nd reduce stress wherever you can. 3rd always drink 32-64 ounces of warm water before a meal. 4th never eat a bite of meat and starchy carb in the same bite (separate them and chew to paste). Bottom line: if you focus on better digestion strategies then you can eat and enjoy. Limit your cardio also because cardio & high stress causes digestive distress! INTENSITY #1.

[MormonManUtah]

I believe most people are just making blind guesses as to why the feel better. Rather than it being simply the meat and veggies that make you feel good....maybe it is really more complicated than we realize. When we get older our digestion strength decreases. When digestion is poor it makes us sleepy and have a hard time recovering. Eating meat and veggies is much easier to digest simply because you are not combining starchy carbs and protein. Stress is a huge factor.

[zzap999]

@MormonManUtah Lierre Keith made the point about how Cargill and others have dumped cheap Nebraska corn into the world market to the point of causing native local farmers all over the world to go out of business. Thus they end up in the crowded cities living in urban poverty.

[zzap999]

@shlokda They also eat a lot of raw meat foods such as fish(sushi). The rice they eat like many asians are white rice. The brown stuff has shown to have many toxins in it. Now we know why rice is refined down to it's white form. If you think rice is so great then look at the Phillipines. Many poor filipinos who trade their fish for bulk rice go blind or have poor eyesight because of Vitamin A deficiences which their caught fish can provide. Japanese can afford both.

[zzap999]

@nymets8669 I've read in Wikipedia under "Paleo diet" that grains and legumes have mimicking protein molecules that can trick your immune system into going autoimmune. Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease. Strange how your own body's own immune system would attack itself due to a wrong diet.

[jaylu0717]

Paleo seems too good to be true? It is. I was on it for just six months. I lost a ton of weight and looked amazing (I'm a woman). No one knew how sick I was. I had to stop to heal the damage only six months did. It's good for now, until you're 60 and all your arteries are clogged. See Forks over Knives (streams on Netflix), or read the China Study. We started eating meat for basic survival, I agree. But we're not made to thrive on it long-term.

[MormonManUtah]

@TheCavemanRunneth You are correct. The complex carbohydrates of the typical world diet are there only because they are easy to mass produce cheaply! If everyone in the world ate the healthy Paleo way we would run out of meat. So everyone can't live Paleo. No worries though. I doubt everyone is going to give up their precious meat and bun slathered in crap. For those of us who get it and understand. For the few that have dropped the water weight, have boundless energy and clear thought...

[nymets8669]

@shlokda this especially makes little sense considering what we know about insulin and metabolic syndrome, as for the Japanese, there diet largely consists of fresh meat and fish and plenty of fruits and vegetables not as much rice as you would think, again this little exchange will only end up with both of us convinced we are right, so shall we agree to disagree? i just know personally i am thrilled to reverse my symptoms of multiple sclerosis with the paleo diet. doesn't mean you have to agree

[nymets8669]

@shlokda i have read many similar studies, they all seem to be very sloppy. i can sight just as many studies that contradict what you say (like this one Frassetto LA, Schloetter M, Mietus-Synder M, Morris RC, Jr., Sebastian A: Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet. Eur J Clin Nutr 2009.) But this will just result in both of us being more convicted in each of our arguments. The mechanisms behind these arguments make little scientific sense