Re: What is Palio diet and how effective is it for weight loss?
Paleo diet. It's a fad.
Wanna lose weight? Lift heavy, run hard, eat natural, sleep well, ignore Internet fads.
Wanna lose weight? Lift heavy, run hard, eat natural, sleep well, ignore Internet fads.
High-fat/low-carb 'is' natural. Look at the traditional diets of the Inuit ( fat from seal and caribou );
Plains Indian ( buffalo and deer fat made into pemmican* ) and West Coast Indians ( candle fish grease );
Masai ( Cow fat and cow blood ), and many other traditional cultures.
That is why it is called things like the Paleolithic/Caveman/Hunter-gatherer diet.
* Like the Inuit(Eskimo) they gave most of the meat to their dogs, but dried some of it.
Fat is where it is at. We are not what we eat anymore than cars are made out of gasoline.
I know the selective science going into paleo and its focus on native americans. It is completely ignoring the thousands of years maize/corn was a staple food of Woodland Indians and how they extensively farmed and cultivated maize and potatoes. It is also ignoring how this more stable food supply led to the Woodland Indians being more healthy and thus more "fruitful in multiplying."
I concur that the low-fat high-carb model as such is flawed and there is a dire need to generally reduce carb content especially in prepared foods (with HFCS being the main culprit).
The Paleo Diet however is just one of many variants of high protein high fat diets we have seen in the last two decades (from Atkins to Metabolic Diet to Anabolic Diet to I'm forgetting a lot of these). Paleo is currently "in", which is why I named it a "fad". In a year or two you will have another variant of high protein high fat being proposed under a new name. I've seen it happen often enough.