**Paleolithic-Diet Fan Club/Support Thread**

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If you google paleolithic or neanderthal diet, you'll find lots.

It's pretty simple, though. Could a caveman have had access to the food you're about to eat? If not, don't eat it.

I'd never survive.

I only eat chicken and turkey now, and occasionally ham. I'm allergic to shellfish (my body tries to expel it from my system as fast as possible and by any means possible), nuts and seeds often make me sick if I eat much of them (minus the random peanut butter sandwich), I'm not supposed to eat salad (also makes me sick) . . . um, should I go on?

Different diets seem to work for different people. Each can experiment to figure out what works best.

Paleo works so great for me I'd never go back.

A sort of offshoot of paleo is the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, which I went on first and which got me into paleo. It's reputed to be good for autists, actually. http://www.scdiet.org

this diet sounds similar to the GI diet, or Glycemic Index diet, where starches like potato's, root vegetables and rice is avoided, I like dairy, but only have 1 serving a day right now, so it wouldn't be a big problem cutting that out. Cost wise is this diet more expensive, per week then what it normally cost on a regular north american diet?

Yes, essentially it is a low/no starchy carbohydrate diet. Which helps me massively with cravings.

And if I give into the cravings, lastcrazyhorn, very soon I don't want to eat anything but wheat and dairy and sugar and bacon and chicken!


Coming from a mainly vegetarian diet, with lots of rice, beans, lentils, and potatoes with veg, this could well seem/be more expensive. If we hadn't also been buying a fair amount of nuts, seeds, avocadoes, corn chips, and various other slightly expensive things, and if we weren't eating less of expensive nibbly/snacky food ( crisps, chocolate etc) as a result, I guess it could seem pretty bad.

But compared to an average diet, which usually includes a fair amount of packet cereals, tinned and processed stuff, packets of biscuits, pizzas, and other over priced pre-packaged stuff, I don't think it does end up more expensive, especially if you almost completely cut out dairy ( esp. icecream and yoghurts ) as you're supposed to aswell.

Have decided not to eat pork though, however tempting it is price-wise, because it just doesn't feel so good.

Whereas beef, and lamb, and eggs and a very occasional piece of cheese feel/taste healthy, pork feels "fake"/artificial, which maybe isn't surprising seeing how pigs in intensive industrial-agriculture are no more than flesh-growing machines, which is very far from their natural state as wild and even alarming wild animals in a way cows/bovines and sheep etc never were.

I'm a bit unsure about chicken, even the free-range kind, because it doesn't "feel" as "useful"/satisfying or something. Ostrich though!


Boosts energy, removes food cravings, may help to reduce/eliminate auto-immune problems, involves less packaged/packet/processed food, consuming less sugar and low/no refined/starchy carbs is good for sleep, against depression, and to lose weight. Shouldn't be more expensive because no-carbs will mean fewer cravings for lots of expensive ( per weight) packet filler-foods.