All New Nutritional Information

Excerpted from www.ThePaleoDiet.com
Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

December 6, 2009 Volume 2 Issue 2
(Originally published July 1, 2006)

 

"Recent Scientific Findings: Acid/Base Balance

One of the major nutritional characteristics of ancestral human diets that have been almost totally ignored in both the lay and scientific literature is acid/base balance. Pick up the latest best selling diet book, be it a reincarnation of Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, The South Beach Diet or whatever, and I can guarantee you that it will not even touch upon this crucial concept.

Briefly, let me review the basic concept. All foods upon digestion report to the kidney as acid, base or neutral. Acid yielding foods are all cereal grains, meats, cheeses, fish and salt. The only base yielding foods are fruits and vegetables^{1, 2}. Fats, they typically displace base yielding fruits and vegetables, they are partially responsible for the net acid load in the typical western diet^{3, 4}. There are a number of adverse health effects either partially or wholly caused by a net acid yielding diet including: osteoporosis, hypertension, stroke, calcium kidney stones, age-related muscle wasting, asthma and exercise-induced asthma^2-6. For more information visit: http://www.thepaleodiet.com/nutritional_tools/acid.shtml."

And from the other CrossFit loved nutrition guru, Dr. Barry Sears, CrossFit Video Series, December 5, 2009

Paleo VS Zone: Part 4 of the Conversation

"Dr. Barry Sears has no problem with the Paleo Diet recommendation to only eat foods that were around 10,000 years ago. The creator of the Zone Diet takes issue only with the idea that you can eat unrestricted quantities of those foods.

“Ancient foods” are more compatible with our genes, but Dr. Sears contends that balancing fat, carbohydrates and protein is still critical to reducing inflammation and improving health. The strict Zone Diet is actually a Paleo-Zone plan that balances these macronutrients in high-quality foods and spreads calorie consumption out through a series of smaller meals. It turns out low food quality isn’t the only thing that can damage your health.

“The other way to raise inflammation is to consume too many calories at each meal,” Dr. Sears says. “So what is too many calories? Anything more than 500 calories. Maybe six, max.”

If Sears had to choose between weighing and measuring quantities of any food and eating unregulated quantities of Paleo foods, he would choose the former. The best approach is to actually combine the two. 

“I think that the consistency of using the weigh-and-measure approach will give you far greater anti-inflammatory benefits than basically an unlimited, unrestricted Paleo Diet,” Sears says. “Now combine the two, well then basically it is truly synergistic.”

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AT THE BURBANK HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AM AND PM
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AMRAP IN REST OF 20:
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