2024-04-09 11:42:24
The Paleolithic diet, the one consumed by our prehistoric ancestors and which excludes whole and refined cereals, legumes, oils and dairy products, is not without risks as it does not respond to heart-healthy eating patterns.
Photography of the exhibition “Making Us Human” in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina).EFE/David Fernández
And this is reflected in a scientific statement from the American Heart Associationpublished in April 2023 in the magazine “Circulation”, after analyzing ten eating patterns and ruling that both the paleolithic and ketogenic diets (very low in carbohydrates) are not good for our cardiovascular system.
This study on different diets and the relationship with cardiometabolic health determines that the diet called “Dash” It has a perfect score by meeting the healthy standards of this scientific society.
And this supposes that it is a diet baja in salt, added sugar, alcohol, tropical oils and processed foods and rica in vegetables, fruits, whole grains and non-starchy legumes; which includes fish or shellfish, poultry, and lean meats and low-fat or fat-free dairy products.
The Mediterranean diet It is also highly rated, and scientists have highlighted that it does not explicitly include added salt and includes moderate alcohol consumption (rather than avoiding or limiting alcohol).
The Mediterranean diet is recommended by professionals. EFE/Kai Försterling
The paleolithic diet, one of the miracle diets
The paleolithic diet, also known as paleo diet, is part of the set of “miracle diets” that go viral on social networks promising health and weight loss and that are usually accompanied by the image of some celebrities.
He Professor of Physiology at the University of Granada and expert in Nutrition, Emilio Martínez de la Victoriaexplained to EFE at the time that this booming diet “is boring”, increases proteins and does not adapt to today’s world.
“We are not paleolithic, we do not run after animals to hunt them and eat their meat nor do we fish with a spear. The secret is to eat less energy than we expend and the paleolithic people were active, they did not have a remote control to sit in the car like now. sofa,” he stressed.
The professor and director for a decade of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology of Granada stressed that this diet causes a great kidney load, is not balanced, causes a calcium deficit and does not always lose weight “because if you eat meat and fish with fat, get fat.”
Paleolithic people and grain consumption
According to the commonly accepted opinion, the diet of prehistoric hunter-gatherers consisted mainly of animal proteins and fats, with a limited number of cereals and legumes, before agriculture appeared.
However, the EU-funded ‘Hidden foods’ project has provided the first unequivocal evidence that wild cereal grains and other types of edible plants played a role. big role in the original Paleolithic diet of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers of Italy and the Balkans.
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