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This diet is under development and it
will be sometime before it is fully online.
I am creating a version that a
supermarket shopper can eat,
will give a brief outline and here are some recipes...
This is like the diet eaten by your
ancestors several thousand years ago before they became
crop farmers and eaters of cereals, legumes and root veggies.
They had no IBS. They ate meat, fish, eggs, seafood,
dairy, fruits, above ground veggies, herbs & spices,
teas, nuts and seeds. They ate them in season and
preserved the excess produce.
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Meat was from all types of animals
including insects and reptiles. It was eaten largely
in cold weather. The organs were eaten raw (liver
etc.). Animals were hunted when they were fat and the
fat was prized more than the meat. Marrow bones were
cooked and craked for their fat content. Meat was cooked and eaten with
broth & sufficient fat. The
rest was dried (biltong etc.) for snacks on hunting
trips and similar. Large fat animals were made into
Pemmican. This is cooked, dried powdered meat mixed
with fat and it keeps without refrigeration. It is a
superb food for travelling and hunting. If they lived
in permafrost areas (Inuit) then excess meat and fat
was stored underground in rock caches where it
gradually became mouldy like blue cheeses. Meat could
also be preserved with a combination of drying,
smoking and salt (bacon & ham etc.).
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Seafood was much the same. Fish roes,
eyes and livers were eaten fresh immediately the fish
was caught. Fish frames were made into broth and eaten
with the flesh. Excess roe was preserved. Excess fish was
dried as meat was. Fish was buried underground and
allowed to ferment for several months, then eaten. If
marine animals like seals, walruses and whales were
available, then these have large fat supplies on them
and were greatly prized. The oils had many uses. They
were eaten, used for lamps and cooking stoves and many
other uses. The Inuit on summer hunting trips, took
dried fish and a pouch of seal oil. The fish was
dipped into the oil before being eaten.
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Eggs were prized, but largely the
yolks which have about one third fat content. Yolks
were eaten raw and the whole egg cooked. Eggs were
from wild and free range birds.
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Dairy from all types of animal herds
was drunk fresh and never pasteurized! But mostly it
was made into cultured forms
that are easier to digest and keep longer.
Yoghurts, related fermented milks, butter and cheeses.
Cheese could be eaten fresh and unsalted, or salted
and stored until moulds had made them tasty and sharp.
There were no 'low fat' options!
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Fruits were gathered in season and
eaten fresh. Excess was dried or made into alcoholic
beverages (wine).
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Nuts and seeds (also olives) were
greatly prized for their high fat content (60-70%).
They were eaten with fruits and the excess was stored.
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Veggies, teas, spices and herbs were
gathered from wild plants. They complement the animal
foods and help to digest them. They could also be
fermented or dried and stored. Black tea, sauerkraut
and kimchi are examples.
This is just a small selection of the ways
in which your ancestors ate their food. Their life was
hard. There were many dangers to be overcome in their
daily life and no Supermarkets. To eat you had to hunt and
gather. BUT they did not suffer from IBS, IBD, Crohns,
asthma, auto-immune disorders, Alzheimers, heart problems,
cancer etc. etc.... These diseases only appeared when
cereals, legumes and root veggies started to be eaten in
quantity. They ate high fat, low fibre diets, and NOT low
fat, high fibre diets.
Dairy... Supermarkets have only
poor quality pasteurized products. I do not
recommend these. All my trials with these gave poor
results. The best dairy
is got straight from the animal or the farmer. I recommend you eat only
these milks and eat them alone with no other foods. Bright yellow butter
from free range grass fed cows is a superb food. Clarified butter (ghee) is even better.
Cooked Meat, fish and eggs... they
should only be eaten in small amounts, in cold weather
(below ~10C), with sufficient fat accompanying them, with
broth or gelatine, sour
teas, salt, garlic, onions, herbs & spices. The ratio of fat to cooked protein is
between 2 and 3.5
Those with difficulty digesting fats should use a ratio of
2
Eat a maximum of 100g of meat or fish per meal and eat 40g
fat/oil (ratio 2) to 70g fat/oil (ratio 3.5) with it.
Satisfactory meats are game, free range goat, venison, beef
& red meat from birds. Mutton and lamb should only be
eaten when it is extremely cold. Avoid farmed seafood, chicken,
& pork.
Eat eggs with garlic & salt.
Dried meat & fish... small
amounts can be eaten as a snack. You can try the Eskimo
trick of dipping it in oil or melted butter before eating
if you like. Those with difficulty digesting fats should
not try this.
Special animal foods... raw
shellfish, raw liver, brains, organ meats, marrow fats,
meat broth, and fish stock, should feature in your diet.
Fruits... these should be seasonal
& tree ripened. In hot weather they are eaten raw. In
cold weather they can be cooked and eaten or made into
teas. There are three basic fruits types...
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Raw fruits that are sweet and sour.
Examples are berries, stonefruit, kiwifruit,
pineapples, mangoes, papaya, tamarillos.
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Raw fruits that are sweet, astringent
& sour. Examples are apples, pears, guavas,
pomegranates, blueberries, cranberries, quinces.
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Cooked fruits. These are sour &
sweet. When cooked, fruits become much more sour. They
vary... apples are very mild, gold kiwifruits are
slightly sour, green kiwifruits are sour, plums are
very sour and berries are very, very sour.
Nuts & Seeds... these should be
freshly cracked. Most processed nuts are either cooked or
heat has been used to process them. Avoid these. Raw
almonds, skin on, are safe.
Teas, Herbs & Spices... these
have special properties that can be used to help digest
your foods. Only drink/eat them when you need to. Never
eat them just for flavour.
Honey and Sugars... Paleo man never
had a supermarket or a beehive. Sweeteners were highly
prized treats. Use them sparingly. New honey is sweet,
straight from the beekeeper in late spring and best eaten
in hot weather. Old honey (six months or more old) is
pungent and is eaten in winter.
Water... no filtered and
chlorinated water supplies existed in Paleo times. Do not
drink these. Go to extraordinary lengths to get rain or
spring water that tastes great and is not treated. Do a
test. Obtain a glass of high quality rain or spring water
at room temperature, then fill another glass with
municipal tap water. Taste each one.
Difficulty digesting fats... if you
have a history of severe IBS with fat in your BMs then you
may have IBS-B. Do not eat too many nuts and use acid
fruit juices to assist you to digest them. Eat emulsified fats
as mayo with egg meals. Butter
is best eaten soft mixed with a little honey or raw sugar. Eat
unemulsified fats (oils, clarified butter) with
cooked meat/fish/eggs in a ratio of 2g of fat per gram of
cooked protein.
Food combining...
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Eat only one sort & type of animal food per meal. Eat eggs, but no meat or fish.
Eat beef but no goat or venison or egg. Eat one type of fish but no
egg or meat.
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Do not eat fruits, veggies or nuts
with animal foods. Eat a meat, fish or egg meal and
accompany it with water, juices, honey, teas, herbs and spices, but
no fruits, veggies or nuts. Eat a fruit, veggie and
nut meal, but no meat, egg or fish with it.
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If dairy proteins are eaten, then one
type per meal should be eaten alone without any other
foods, except water/juices/honey/teas/herbs/spices. So
eat yoghurt alone, eat cheese alone and only one sort
of cheese.
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Eat melons alone and not with other
fruits.
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Never heat honey.
Order of eating... drink water
first, then fruit juices & teas with Vitamins, then fruits & nuts OR meat/fish/egg, then fats,
then any black/green teas.
Recipes
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