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Is paleolithic diet healthy by modern standards?
Paleolithic diet or old stone age diet used to be rich in fruit (high fructose), meat, starchy vegetable/roots/tubers. Despite the fact these dietary components in modern diet have been associated with many modern illnesses like cardiovascular disease and obesity, such diseases are rare among tribes that continue to follow the hunter-gatherer diet unaffected by modern day influences.
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Why our ancestors on paleolithic diet did not suffer modern diseases?
The answer to why these chronic diseases were uncommon in ancient times may lie in not comprised such a diet, rather what was absent!
In the context, grains and milk immediately pop up as potential answers. The scientific research on gluten sensitivity/intolerance has undergone an exponential rise with the recognition that patients can actually suffer symptoms without having classic celiac sprue. Cow milk allergy and intolerance has been implicated in pathogenesis of many disorders and autism spectrum disorders may be one of them.
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Autism: It's Gut Stupid!
We have previously emphasized, based on circumstantial but indirect evidence, my hypothesis that gut plays a key role in pathogenesis of autism and sustaining the manifestations.
Our gut as well as its internal milieu is well established during the early childhood. In fact, each one of us has a unique bacterial fingerprint of gastrointestinal bacteria. The intestinal milieu including bacteria as well as metabolic and digestive processes can only be altered to some extent and that too perhaps not permanently under most circumstances.
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Paleolithic diet and lifestyle choices for autism spectrum disorders
Apart from accepting what is in place, one may do a wholesale change in diet and life-style to old stone age patterns which is beyond the reach of most individuals.
Since chronic disease processes like autism are usually multi-factorial including genetic predisposition, it stands to reason that such a program does not necessarily expect a cure, an amelioration of a healthy state is certainly a distinct possibility.
Pragmatic adaption of paleolithic diet for gut cleansing in kids with autism
Kids are picky eaters and kids with autism even more so. As such, a more pragmatic approach is to adopt a healthy cleansing-diet and digestion plan partially based on salient paleolithic principles with some exceptions.
While practising it everyday is a tall order, health benefits may be attained by adopting it at regular intervals so as to ameliorate the unhealthy aspects of what the unhealthy gut has in store. A practical strategy might be a weekend or atleast one day a week approach.
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A trial of semi-paleolithic semi-fasting cleansing proposal (at least 8-12 weeks)
Diet plan mostly mimics fruit, meat, nuts diet but there are exceptions to paleolithic diet. Do not eat treenuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews, hazelnuts etc) if allergic to anyone of them. In order to accomplish its cleansing goal, we have substituted some fruit component to juice. Again in puruit of cleansing the gut, the diet shall follow a semi-fasting pattern (easier to accept by kids than full fast).
- Drink a glass of freshly squeezed fruit/vegetable juice (mix/match and combination/permutations of grapefruit, carrots, 1/4 inch slice ginger, one garlic clove, celery, beets, bitter gourd, pineapple, fenugreek leaves, neem flowers/leaves, cilantro, parsley for juice at different times of day) 3-5 times a day
- Eat a large bowl of pieces of water melon for breakfast, lunch and supper.
- If the kids must have cereal, use quinoa in almond milk with blueberries and sprinkling of flax seed. Use honey as sweetener.
- Have fruit salad at lunch including cantaloupe, apple, pears. This is in addition to bowl of watermelon. If not allergic, eat nuts like cashews, peeled almonds (4-8 each). No peanuts please.
- For supper, in addition to water melon and another glass of juice as above.
- For meat eaters, eat grilled chicken/fish (half the usual serving for age) at lunch or supper. Be sure its organic. Do not overdo on grilling! Use fresh spices for seasoning rather than pastes that contain presevrvatives/additives. Fish should preferably be wild and with less potential for mercury toxicity.
- Vegans may use high protein meat-alternates like quinoa, buckwheat etc
- If you must have vegetables in salad, it should be only a small component and include fenugreek leaves. Vegetables should preferably be shredded or atleast cut into small pieces before ingestion in order to allow easier digestion and gut cleansing.
- Drink herbal tea like mint, blueberry, peach etc. in addition to plenty of water during the day.
- Again no milk, eggs, peanuts or refined sugar.
The efficacy of above plan should be enhanced while taking probiotics on a consistent basis.
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A few more pearls from Dr. Minocha
- Diets like above can have significant interactions with medications, so must talk to your doctor.
- Double up on your probiotic intake during this diet.
Another safe mantra
Do not eat french fries more than once a week. USDA tried to make that mandatory for school lunch rule 2011, however, the argument of personal responsibility prevailed and now its incumbent upon parents to institute it if they feel it is important.
NOTE: Never make significant dietary changes like above without discussing with your doctor.
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