Paleo diet isn’t about weight loss

This week on AWIS, Is your new favourite diet just a fad?, well look at the science underpinning some of our most popular diets.

Looking good whatever she is taking ... Australian model Miranda Kerr poses during a launch for Reebok's Skyscape women's shoes in Seoul, South Korea. Source: AP

IT'S the eat like a caveman weight-loss regime embraced by Hollywood royalty but the Paleo diet was originally designed to help combat the chronic diseases faced by the modern world, its founder says.

Although slammed by some nutritionists, celebrities like Miranda Kerr, actress Megan Fox and cricketer Andrew Flintoff are all followers of the diet, which advocates ditching sugar, processed foods, grains and dairy.

It has become so popular it was the most Googled diet of 2013.

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Colorado State University researcher Dr Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet, has told News Corp Australia it was never his intention to write a book about a new diet craze — that was simply his editor's way of boosting sales.

"The idea we had had little to do with weight control, we were more interested in cardiovascular effects, cancer, acne and myopia," he said.

"Most of the book is directed at chronic disease in the Western world ... it is a lifelong way of eating to reduce the risk of chronic disease."

Cordain will be in Australia later this week to speak to the Bioceuticals Research Symposium on integrative medicine in Sydney. He will argue modern processed foods "are at odds with our ancient and conservative genome" and this manifests itself as various chronic illnesses which have been dubbed the diseases of civilisation.

His visit comes after a two-year trial in post menopausal women in Denmark found the Paleo diet produced more weight loss at six months than another diet but the advantage faded after two years.

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However, the study found after two years those women on the Paleo diet had a significantly greater reduction in levels of the triglycerides linked to heart disease than women on the diet recommended by Nordic nutritionists.

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Research from Melbourne has found a Paleo style diet that also includes consumption of whole grains (banned from the Paleo diet) improved acne by 50 per cent.

And Dr Cordain says emerging research is showing the diet can help those with irritable bowel, Crohn's disease and Colitis.

The diet is also useful for coeliacs who can't eat most grains, and the 3-7 per cent of the population who have gluten sensitivity, Dr Cordain says.

Nutritionists and anthropologists have slammed the diet and claim the meat, fruit and vegetables we eat today are nothing like those consumed 10,000 years ago.

Leading dietitian Dr Rosemary Stanton, who advised the government on national food guidelines gives the Paleo diet "a tick for condemning consumption of ultra processed food".

However, she says it promotes a very high consumption of red meat even though the World Cancer Research Fund found this was a causative factor in bowel cancer.

To get enough calcium from vegetables rather than dairy those on the diet would need to consume kilograms of Asian vegetables, and it was also hard to get enough fibre on the diet, she said.

"Humans have been eating grains and dairy foods for 10,000 years and for the first 9,950 we didn't gain weight," she said.

The real reason for our weight problems can be linked to the fact there were only 600-800 foods available until the advent of supermarkets introduced 30,000 new products, most of which were ultra processed, she said.

"I think if you're going to follow that diet you should live in a cave and wear animal skins," she said.

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PALEO DIET

EAT

Grass-produced meats

Fish/seafood

Fresh fruits and veggies

Eggs

Nuts and seeds

Healthful oils (Olive, walnut, flaxseed, macadamia, avocado, coconut)

DON'T EAT

Cereal grains

Legumes (including peanuts)

Dairy

Refined sugar

Potatoes

Processed foods

Salt

Refined vegetable oils

A DAY ON THE PALEO DIET

Breakfast (serves 1)

Vegetable Omelette

2 eggs scrambled

1tsp olive oil.

2 green onions sliced

1 cup fresh spinach

2 small tomatoes

½ avocado

Sautee onions, add eggs and cook 2 minutes, add remaining ingredients and flip. Cook until eggs are cooked.

Lunch

Waldorf Salad serves 3-4

1 bag mixed salad greens

2 green onions chopped

2 red apples chopped

2 green apples chopped

1 cup dried cranberries

1 cup walnuts

Mix all ingredients and dress with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

Dinner

Dijon glazed salmon

salmon fillet

4 cloves garlic

1 lemon juiced

3 tabs olive oil

1 atb Dijon mustard

3 tabs capers

1 tsp dried basil

1 tsp dried dill

1-2 dashes cayenne pepper

Combine all ingredients except salmon in saucepan, bring to boil and simmer 5 minutes. Place salmon in large piece of foil and pour over sauce. Wrap and place in 200C oven for 20 minutes.

New slimline look accreditated to the Paleo Diet ... Former English cricketer Andrew Flintoff with wife Rachael. Source: Getty Images

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