Paleo Diet Practices

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Foods included in the Paleo Diet have been inferred by ethnographic studies, archeological, anthropologic research and the optimal foraging theory. The diet obviously does not necessarily advocate only consuming wild-sourced food due to the wide availability of food today, but it does encourage eating grass-fed meats, rather than grain-fed meats. The meats included are those that could have been hunted and fished by various hunter-gatherer peoples. Other foods in the diet are plant as well as some other animal products that could have conceivably been gathered such as eggs, seeds, fruits, vegetables, spices and more. By comparison to some of today’s other diets, the Paleo Diet is not extremely limited and is actually very diverse.


 

Paleo Diet Practices

 The drink of choice in the Paleo Diet is water, which is true for many different diets today. The Paleo Diet is not a strictly raw-food diet and food may be either raw or cooked. Practitioners encourage a great deal of variety when engaging in the diet to ensure the proper balance of vitamins and minerals obtained from various meats and other foods. Fifty-six to sixty-five percent of the diet should be animal products and thirty-six to forty-five should be plant products. The diet should be high in protein, but low in carbohydrates. Fat intake is comparable to that of modern western diets. Calcium supplementation is encouraged for those who struggle to obtain optimum intake from plant products.