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Present Diets Compared With the Paleolithic Diet
  • Focusing on Weight Watchers and The Atkins Diet

2
Paleolithic Diet What is it?
  • Humans are omnivores, adapted to eat animals and
    vegetables.
  • Inuits in Alaska ate 90 meat
  • Australian Aboriginals ate 90 plants
  • On average, up to 35 of the diet was meat
  • Only wild game

3
What is it, Specifically
  • Our ancestors ate 1000s of the millions of
    species of plants and animals
  • There is evidence of fishing communities around
    the Nile, who mainly fished for food. They also
    ate hippos and crocodiles.
  • Most ate nuts, seeds, oil-bearing fruits, some
    grasses, berries, tree fruits, bird eggs,
    insects, and mice, bison

4
Why Was it so Healthy?
  • Wild meat contains mixtures of fats that are good
    for you.
  • Healthy amount of vitamins, minerals, amino
    acids, and enzymes are obtained from raw plant
    and small animal foods.
  • Even though they lacked dairy products, they
    still had more calcium in their diets than
    Westerners do.

5
Why Was it so Healthy Cont
Paleolithic Current US Ratio
Calcium 1622 920 1.8
Iron 87.4 10.5 8.3
Potassium 10500 2500 4.2
Vitamin A 17.2 7.8 2.2
Vitamin E 32.8 8.5 3.9
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Weight Watchers Diet
  • The Weight Watchers Diet believes that a healthy
    body results from a healthy lifestyle which mean
    mental, emotional, and physical health.
  • No counting calories
  • Exercise whenever possible (even if its just
    parking farther from your destination and
    walking)

7
Weight Watchers - Food
  • You need to eat food from all food groups.
  • fruits and vegetables
  • grains and starches
  • lean meats
  • fish
  • poultry
  • eggs
  • dairy products
  • Basically this diet is made up of a healthy
    balance of all the food groups, including
    deserts.
  • It is also focused on proportions.

8
Now We Compare
  • It is safe to say that it is much like the
    Paleolithic diet.
  • If we assume that the Paleolithic diet is the
    most healthy and productive form of diet, then we
    can also say that Weight Watchers should work.
  • Why? Because it has a balance of all the things
    that our ancestors would have eaten (everything!)
  • It is important that this diet does not
    completely rid of deserts, since sugar is
    understandably something we crave.
  • The fact that they limit proportions is important
    because in the EEA, we did not have an unlimited
    supply of food.
  • It also puts a strong emphasis on physical
    activity, which was obviously huge in cave man
    life.

9
Atkins Diet
  • Disgusting
  • Based on the theory that our bodies burn both
    fat and carbohydrates for energy, but carbs are
    used first. By drastically reducing carbs and
    eating more protein and fat, our bodies naturally
    lose weight by burning stored body fat more
    efficiently.

10
Atkins Diet - Food
  • This chart is for the first 2 weeks of the diet.
    After that, you can add in (in small proportions)
    fruit, vegetables, and whole-grain foods.

11
Now We Compare
  • In the EEA, we didnt have saturated fatty food
    like we do today. Most of our food was very low
    in fat, especially since we ate wild game.
  • One of our main sources of food in the EEA isnt
    allowed for the first two weeks of this diet!

12
So Why Does it Work?
  • People claim it reduces their appetite. Why?
  • Guenther Boden at Temple University School of
    Medicine in Philadelphia found that people on the
    diet reduced their caloric intake by 1000
    calories a day, even though they were allowed to
    eat as many calories a day as they wanted to.
    Why?
  • Real Reson People Lose Weight on the Atkins Diet
  • Because they eat less! (and because its
    disgusting)

13
Conclusion
  • Weight Watchers is the closest of the two diets
    compared to the Paleolithic diet, which is a good
    reason for why it works.
  • Atkins Diet is far from the Paleolithic diet
    except the fact that people eat less while on it.
  • Thank you!
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