Eat, move and think your way to better health

• EAT

  • Eating naturally

  • Natural diets

  • Paleo principal

  • Ketogenic diets

  • Vegetarian or vegan

  • Allergic or intolerant?

  • Healthy recipes

• MOVE

  • Move naturally

  • Breathe

  • Daily Exercises

  • Rejuvenate

  • Stand

• THINK

  • Thinking naturally

  • Clearing mental clutter

  • Positive thinking

  • SD Protocol

  • Setting goals

  • Stress Management

  • Brain foods

• INFORMATION

  • Contact & Privacy

PALEO and PRIMAL diets 

There is no single ‘ancestral' diet as our ancestors lived across the globe in any number of different living conditions. The principles of both Paleo  and Primal diets embrace one simple thought – that to gain the best health we can, we would be better off eating natural and unprocessed foods, aiming to get as close to our ancestral diet as possible.

Our ancestors did not have any other way to feed themselves but to hunt and gather. An agricultural existence only arrived on our timeline approximately 10,000 years ago. Our bodies evolved over the millennia to function well and thrive on this way of eating (as long as we survived childhood and avoided accidents and beasts hunting us!). Then agriculture started to develop and gave us a more stable food supply,  leading to an explosion in our population – and brought us the relatively newer problems involving dental changes, illnesses and a digestive system that wasn't as good at utilising farmed foods (especially grains). 

To make matters worse, we fast-forwarded into industrialization, and at such a speed that our bodies cannot change as quickly as our capacity to create non-natural and genetically-modified foods. This is the consequence of a modern diet. 

The Paleo principal may well be the one for you. Some people will find it difficult as recommendations exclude staples like bread (modern grains are highly modified) and dairy products, all of which break down rapidly to sugars and proteins which appear to stress or damage our digestive system. Rest assured that similar nutrients are abundant in other foods you will be able to eat.

The main consideration is that you make changes slowly and get used to adapting your menu. Change one thing and don't make another one until you are happy with the first one! Focus on what is being added in or what you are gaining rather than what you'll miss. Once you are used to the changes and feeling full of energy you won't miss the foods that make you feel sluggish and tired.

• • Eat only whole, unprocessed, nutrient-dense, nourishing foods.
• • Aim for proteins (meat, fish, eggs, poultry) that have also eaten unprocessed, nutrient-dense, nourishing foods.
• • Fish, vegetables, eggs and fruits are best when farmed in a natural fashion or caught wild.
• • never, ever buy and eat foods that have no resemblance to what they claim to be or have a longer list of ingredients than if you were to make it yourself – or ingredients you can't pronounce. 
• • shopping around the outside of the supermarket or market... avoid the aisles where things come in packets and tins.

There are a lot of exceptions to these rules... for example, chocolate! Cheap chocolate and chocolate bars should never pass your lips, but high-quality, 70% cocoa dark chocolate is fine in moderation. When you need a chocolate fix, make it as pure as possible with as few ingredients as possible.