Eat This And Get Healthier In Just 10 Days

What diet gets you a sexy body fast?

As a followup of sorts, to my article titled: Doctor Reveals What You Should Eat Every Day For Fat Loss And Health, I’d like to share with you how you can improve every marker of your health … in just ten days … by simply changing what you’re eating.

Can it really be that easy?

Yup!

What’s The Secret?

A New Study has revealed that switching to a “Paleo” diet will give you outstanding health benefits in as little as 10 days.

Here’s what you should know …

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine performed a study in which nine non-obese sedentary, healthy individuals consumed their usual diet for three days, then ate foods with more potassium and fiber for seven days, and then consumed a Paleolithic type diet which included lean meat, fruits, vegetables and nuts, and excluded grains, dairy and legumes, for 10 days.

The researchers found that when compared to the baseline diet, the participants showed significant reductions in blood pressure, plasma insulin, total cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and triglycerides from the Paleolithic diet.

So Is “Paleo” Eating The Ultimate Way To Eat?

Sort of …

Let me just say this, “it isn’t a bad way to go!”

Now, guys like my friend Martin from LeanGains.com has pointed out that basically eating “clean” might just give you the same results … BUT … what’s interesting about this study is that the health markers in the participants improved after just 10 days on the diet, BEFORE, they even lost any weight (which would improve their health considerably more).

Martin, a man much smarter than me, explains it well with this excerpt from his site:

“There’s now research that supports the health benefits of a paleo diet. A recent study* showed participants’ health markers improved when they switched to a paleo diet for ten days. Most people will see benefits in these markers simply by making an effort to eat healthier, in which case the cause would be reducing calorie intake and the resultant weight loss.

This study was of particular note because calorie and macronutrient intake was controlled and set to maintain the weight of participants. The benefits seen – such as lower fasting insulin, improvements in insulin sensitivity and blood lipids – resulted from manipulating quality, not quantity, of foods in the participants’ diet.

Also these results were recorded after merely ten days of following the paleo diet, so they were seen without the confounding factor of weight loss. When it comes to health, the paradigm of “a calorie is a calorie” doesn’t ring true. However, it isn’t wrong to assume that similar results would have been obtained by following a regular “clean” diet despite what some of the hardcore paleo proponents may tell you.”

So What Is The Paleo Diet?

The most concise answer I could find to explain it to you, is this, taken from The Paleo Diet website:

“Paleo is a simple dietary lifestyle that is based on foods being either in or out. In are the Paleolithic Era foods that we ate prior to agriculture and animal husbandry (meat, fish, shellfish, eggs, tree nuts, vegetables, roots, fruit, berries, mushrooms, etc.). Out are Neolithic Era foods that result from agriculture or animal husbandry (grains, dairy, beans/legumes, potatoes, sugar and fake foods).”

So that’s pretty easy right?

Think to yourself, “Would a Caveman Have Access To It?” If so, then it’s safe to eat.

As I’ve written before …

If you want a quick break down of what natural foods are, here’s the simple “eat this, don’t eat that” page from the Paleo website:

“Eat none of the following:

· Grains- including bread, pasta, noodles

· Beans- including string beans, kidney beans, lentils, peanuts, snow-peas and peas

· Potatoes

· Dairy products

· Sugar

· Salt

Eat the following:

· Meat, chicken and fish

· Eggs

· Fruit

· Vegetables (especially root vegetables, but definitely not including potatoes or sweet potatoes)

· Nuts, eg. walnuts, brazil nuts, macadamia, almond. Do not eat peanuts (a bean) or cashews (a family of their own)

· Berries- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc.

Try to increase your intake of:

· Root vegetables- carrots, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, Swedes

· Organ meats- liver and kidneys (I accept that many people find these unpalatable and won’t eat them)

Expect some minor tuning problems- don’t worry, you can deal with them:

· It will take some time for your body to adjust to the changes after all these years. There is a huge surge in your vitamin intake. There is a huge decrease in your toxin intake.

· Start with breakfast for few days, as this is the easiest place to start as most people eat it at home, and it tends to be the least Paleolithic meal of the standard 3. For weight loss you will eventually need to reduce your carbohydrate intake, but ignore this initially as most people have high carb intakes and this can continue for the first few days that you are on this diet. If you reduce too quickly then you may fell unwell. Then move on to lunch or dinner for a few days and then to all 3 meals. If you work, you will often find it easier to take your lunch to work.

· Keep reading more about the diet- and read it again. Remember, there are many dietary myths that will need to be unlearned. Particularly, please read the section on fats several times. Knowledge on fats has exploded over the last decade and there is a realization in mainstream nutrition that omega 3 fats are critical to good health. It is very important to ensure that you have an adequate intake of these. The low fat diet craze of the 90’s was well intentioned but many people “threw out the baby with the bath-water”- most people reduced omega 3 fat intake as well as other fats, and sometimes even increased omega 6 fats. There is now a realization that the low fat diet theory of the 90’s doesn’t often work (it has about a 6% success rate like most other diets) and that the vast majority of the Western population need to increase their omega 3 intake and decrease their omega 6 intake. Even if you don’t end up on a Paleolithic Diet, you will benefit from a better appreciation of fats.”

Pretty simple, wouldn’t you agree? Basically, “If it didn’t grow out of the ground, off a tree, or you couldn’t kill it before hand… then don’t eat it!” another way to keep it simple is, “eat like a caveman“. And another simple way to think of it is: “if it comes out of a box — or it had to be created some how — don’t eat it!“

It’s amazing how far “common sense” eating like this can go. It makes sense because we’ve been eating this way for thousands (maybe even millions) of YEARS (farming, grains and all that is a very modern invention)

Change What You Eat, Change Your Life …

I’ve been experimenting with eating a lot better, more quality, natural foods lately and the results have been GREAT!

I’ve found I don’t need to worry so much about “dieting” or how much I’m really eating … AND … I’ve only done one or two cardio workouts in the past 3 or 4 months …

And you know what?

I’m actually leaner than ever. I’ll give you an update on all this after a little bit, but the results have been great.

So, if you’re looking for some “guidelines” on WHAT to eat, I’d say that starting with a Paleo based diet would be very good for you.