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  • Jim Swayze, ASQ CSQE
    Jim Swayze, ASQ CSQE

    Paleo: The Ultimate Gluten-Free Diet

    Reviewed and edited by a celiac disease expert.

    Once an obscure dietary regimen practiced by an odd band of misfits, the paleo diet has only recently reached larger consciousness by those wanting to improve their waistlines and general health. So what exactly is "paleo"?

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    Celiac.com 09/08/2017 - For for the overwhelming majority of our time here on this planet we've all followed a paleo, or hunter-gatherer, diet. This is not a way of eating invented by the latest Hollywood guru – though truth be told there are now plenty of stars who eat this way. It's common sense, really, if you're able to unlearn a good portion of the dietary wisdom we've been force-fed over the last generation or two.

    Paleo means little more than, in the words of Ray Audette, what you could find to eat if you were "naked with a sharp stick.” And the foods you'd find would have to be, at least in theory (though usually not in practice), edible raw. So what foods would have been available to our ancestors?

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    Meat, for sure. There are no known hunter gatherer populations who were vegetarian/vegan. Animal protein is vital to human health. Why then do we hear about healthy vegetarian diets? Because they are healthy as compared to the modern Western diet, with its ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup, artificial fats and sweeteners, and high-glycemic carbohydrates.

    Ok, so animal protein. What else could have been found by our ancestral hunter-gatherers? Fruit and true vegetables, in season.

    That's basically it: meat, fruit, vegetables. And of course, plenty of good, cold water.

    What did we not eat then? Grains in any form, gluten-free or not. Legumes, which are extremely toxic raw and have to be soaked and cooked in order to be edible. (Hint: peanuts are legumes!) New world foods like chocolate, coffee. The list goes on and you should have the hang of it by now. Again, the standard: foods edible raw that would have been available to our ancestors.

    Question: Would dairy have been available to our ancestors? The answer is clearly no, other than in the form of human breastmilk for the first few months or years of life. Bovine milk, meant for calf populations, is not a natural human food.

    Sound overly restrictive? Let me tell you today's menu: For breakfast, three eggs over easy with bacon and a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice. Lunch was tuna on romaine lettuce with sliced almonds and a vinaigrette with iced green tea to drink. And dinner, a mere five minutes away, is grassfed flank steak lettuce-wrap tacos with roasted hatch green chile guacamole. And a nice glass of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.

    Give paleo a try. It's the ultimate gluten-free way of eating.



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    Guest Joe E.

    The problem with this is that paleo is a myth. We've been eating grains at least for as long as we stopped being strictly nomadic, and likely for as long as we've had fire and a place to cook. By all means follow this diet it you like, but it isn't some magic cure-all.

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    Guest Michelle

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    If you have an autoimmune disease, I highly recommend trying the Paleo Autoimmune Protocol (no grains or dairy etc. but lots and lots of vegetables with animal protein in moderation) or the Wahls Protocol. I was able to taper off and stay off corticosteroids and immunosuppressants using diet alone. See The Paleo Mom, or Dr. Terry Wahls (who reversed her multiple sclerosis using diet). Food is medicine!

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    Guest Amy Mitchell

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    The concept behind paleo is poor, but eating grain free has resolved my gluten ataxia. Simply eating gluten free did help as much as removing ALL grains did. I use paleo recipes for baked goods, using root and nut flours. Somewhere in between paleo and gluten free may be the best choice for those with autoimmune issues related to gluten.

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    Guest Mary

    I went paleo a few years ago and have never felt better. I am not sure why there is a comment here that the "concept behind paleo is poor"?

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    Guest Lone

    Wait, so wine is part of the paleo diet?

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    Jim Swayze, ASQ CSQE

    Jim Swayze is a freelance writer and lecturer, and is Quality Manager at Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, Texas. He is a strong advocate of what is called the Paleo Diet, a way of eating based upon the very logical idea that humans are healthiest when they consume only the types and classes of foods that their ancestors would have consumed in the approximately 2.5 million years before agriculture. Jim adopted this way of eating in 1999 after his research on celiac disease and gluten intolerance led him to the writings of Ray Audette, Loren Cordain, and Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades.


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