Anyone doing the hunter-gatherer diet?

September 27, 2009

I was instructed by my hollistic Doc to start this diet to reverse my diabetes,

adn get off insulin, any one doing this?

September 30, 2009

, " seashelll30 "

<seashelll30 wrote:

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> I was instructed by my hollistic Doc to start this diet to reverse

> my diabetes, adn get off insulin, any one doing this?

In September 2003 I shifted from a largely grain and bean based diet to a more

hunter-gatherer type diet, and I lost 10 pounds the first month, ultimately

losing 30 pounds in 5 months. For the first few years, I was still eating

oatmeal on weight training days and two slices of sprouted grain bread with

cheese or hummus for my evening meal. A couple years ago, I ditched the wheat,

cheese, and oatmeal. However, I'm not purist to the point that my diet is a

" cult of food re-enactment " as Kurt Harris puts it on his PaNu blog. Once in a

while I'll have some wild rice or dried beans, and I do enjoy fresh beans from

the farmers market in summer time.

In a nutshell, what you should absolutely completely eliminate from the diet are

refined sugars, grains containing gluten (wheat, barley, rye, etc.), and refined

vegetable oil. Everything else you can experiment with to see how well you do

with or without. As a general rule, if you're going to eat cooked starches,

limit it to a half-cup of cooked starchy food in a meal, with the bulk of the

meal being paleo spectrum foods. As a diabetic, though, you really should just

cut out the cooked starches altogether. And, by cooked starches, I mean grains,

pseudo grains (quinoa, amaranth, etc.), potatoes, sweetpotatoes, and any other

food that is mostly just starch. Additionally, as a diabetic, it might also be

good to eliminate dairy products.

The blogosphere is a great resource for paleo diet info. I'd post some links,

but the moderator always edits them out when I do. My favorite two paleo blogs

are " PaNu " and " Mark's Daily Apple " ; just plug the quoted names into a search

engine and you'll find them.

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