How would your body respond to a Neolithic versus a Paleolithic diet?

Some Sacramento restaurants specialize in neolithic or paleolithic menus. A neolithic diet is cereal-based and plant-based with some fish, eggs, fruit, monosaturated oils, nuts, seeds, brown rice or other whole grains, legumes, beans, sea vegetables, and cheese.

A paleolithic diet is is animal-protein based with some green or root vegetables, berries, nuts, and fats but no dairy, beans, or grains. Instead yams, sweet potatoes, or similar root vegetables take the place of lots of bread or rice. Which is better for your body's response to foods? Meat, fish, and eggs are sources of animal protein. A paleolithic diet may also include some sea vegetables.

Some body types respond one way or another to an iron-reduced cereal-based Neolithic diet with specific diseases. See the site, " Hemochromatosis: a Neolithic adaptation to cereal grain diets." That's why diets need to be customized to what your genes require.

A metabolic-syndrome diet focuses on grain restriction and includes monosaturated oils and some coconut milk, but not too much, along with a diet high in fish, vegetables, and a little fruit, such as low-sugar berries. A vegan diet would eliminate dairy and eggs. An ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes eggs and dairy but emphasizes mainly plant-based foods. A vegetarian with fish diet emphasizes mostly vegetables and some fruits with a little fish or other seafood, or fish and/or krill oil supplements.

Take a class on raw, vegan cuisine in Sacramento

You can take classes on raw foods cuisine in Sacramento at the Art of Food cafe. Ask the cafe's owners about the classes they offer. If you participate in the numerous vegetarian and vegan food clubs in Sacramento, think of the Art of Food cafe as your possible community center where you can meet other vegans interested in raw foods, drink tea, play chess, or take classes in the benefits of raw food.

For the raw, vegan foods people, here are some cafes and eateries in Sacramento. You can prepare similar foods at home in your own area. Eat what your body requires. Should you eat in a Paleolithic style (animal protein, some berries, some root vegetables) or more in a Neolithic style (plant-based with some fish high in Omega 3 fatty acids)?

Raw, Vegan and Vegetarian-Friendly Cafes in Sacramento

As far as the raw, vegan food offered by the Art of Food cafe, it opened in June, 2009 and presently is expanding its menu. If you're at work and don't have time to sit in a restaurant but want raw food for lunch, for example, the Art of Food Cafe has pre-ordered takeout food, a vegan line of ice creams, and general groceries such as Himalayan pink crystal salt, organic and raw nori, agave nectar, goji powder and raw cacao. Organic produce soon will be sold as well.

If this interests you, contact the cafe to see what plans are envisioned for the future where you can enjoy the environment, ambiance, and raw vegan food. The cafe has blenders, prayer flags, sunny walls, a mural and offers great smoothies you usually won't find around Sacramento such as the delicious hemp seed smoothies, the mesquite vanilla, the sweet hemp cream and a Peruvian root smoothie, maca.

If you're a fan of chocolate, try the refrigerated raw chocolates or the crackers and persimmon pudding. For a health salad, try the seaweed salad and hummus. The idea is to eat more healthy. There are other vegetarian, vegetarian-friendly and vegan eateries in Sacramento such as the mostly vegan Au Lac Veggie on Stockton Blvd. Try the faux-fish or the whey. Whey, a dairy-derived product, is not vegan. But the eatery is mainly vegetarian. Au Lac Veggie also serves Asian vegetarian food.

If you're looking for totally raw, vegan food in Sacramento, try the Art of Food cafe and Tonic Bar on Del Paso Blvd. Instead of a stove, they have two dehydrators. To read the latest interview with chef Richard Hemsley, check out the December 13, 2009 Sacramento Bee article, " If you can't stand heated food, welcome to this kitchen," by Gina Kim. The cafe offers raw, vegan food--no animal products.

Food is never heated more than to 105 degrees, unless you order a cup of hot tea. Besides food, you can order tonics from the tonic bar. Read the reviews online for the Art of Food Cafe and Tonic Bar located at 1825 Del Paso Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95815. This highly recommended cafe has exquisite raw, vegan food. Also, the visual imagery is pleasing to the eye with fresco artwork wall murals.

What type of raw vegan food can you order at the Art of Food cafe? Try the delicious coconut curry soup with kelp noodles. Or taste the exquisite ceviche made from mushrooms. If you're looking for ethnic food, try the tostada created from a cultured corn shell under a Mexican-style sunflower pate. Or if you like raw vegan Italian food, try the lasagna with the pasta made from zucchini and includes almond cheese.

Or to introduce you to raw, vegan food, try the spring rolls and soup. If you're going on a vegan, raw diet, what percentage is healthy? You could start with a 50 to 66 percent vegan raw diet, say for the earlier hours of the day, and then at night eat mainstream-style food.

That all depends on whether you belong to raw, vegan clubs, vegetarian associations, or other groups that meet and eat. And there are numerous vegetarian clubs in Sacramento. Next time you want a social setting for raw, vegan food, try the Art of Food Cafe.

Sacramento's Sugar Plum Vegan Cafe

The newest vegan restaurant in Sacramento is the Sugar Plum Vegan Cafe. What's great about vegan and vegetarian eateries is that the vegetarian clubs and community also can meet there or learn more about vegetarian, raw, and vegan foods.

The Sugar Plum Vegan Cafe opened last year in February, 2010 at 2315 K St. The address had been the former location of the True Love Coffeehouse. Totally vegan food--no honey, milk, eggs, or other animal products will be served. What will be served includes vegan potato pancakes, lasagna, curry dishes, and other "home-style comfort foods."

The vegan theme here is "world fusion." Also planned for the cafe are entertainment such as live music in the dining area. But upstairs, there's a small retail department with clothing sales. Everything in the store except the books is vegan-made.

The food in this nutritionist journalist's opinion is delicious. Melissa Wilhelm with her husband Khy'em Amri started the business. The couple have been operating a wholesale baking business for several years, delivering vegan foods to Whole Foods, Java City, and numerous other food businesses. For further information, see the article which ran before the restaurant first opened in February, 2010, "Owners hope vegan cafe's a natural fit for Sacramento," by Bob Shallit, Inside Business.

Which Diet is Healthier for You--Raw or Dehydrated Foods, Your Ancestral Diet, or Your City's Mainstream Diet?

Which diet is healthier--for you--customized, and tailored for your own body--vegan, raw foods or the mainstream diet of your culture and location? That all depends upon how your body reacts to the diet you find healthiest.

How does your diet make you feel as far as your health? If for the past 50,000 years, your particular genetic expression and signature did well on a specific type of diet, will it do as well today on the very different approaches to foods?

Or are you basically healthier on a plant-based diet? It all depends on how your blood chemistry processes what food you eat. Some people have a specific gene variant that allows their blood to remove excess cholesterol. Other people have a specific enzyme or chemical in their bloodstream, through inheritance that makes their blood thicker than most people, and they don't have the ability to remove cholesterol from animal products.

So where do the fats go? Into their arteries years faster than it would for those people who have that genetic variation allowing them to eat as much meat and fat as they want without their cholesterol being deposited into lesions in their arteries. It's basically genetic.

For those who do best on plant-based vegan, raw food diets because they have the genes that do well on that diet, it's good to know that more vegan, raw foods cafes are opening. And even if they are not in your area, you can still learn how to prepare the type of foods that your body needs. The moral of this is everybody's different.

Some need animal protein, and some don't do well on it. But everyone needs a balanced diet that is tailored to his or her genetic expression. How do you know?

Just ask yourself how does your body feel on a particular diet. For the raw, vegan foods people, here are some cafes and eateries in Sacramento. You can prepare similar foods at home in your own area. Eat what your body requires. Should you eat in a Paleolithic style (animal protein, some berries, some root vegetables) or more in a Neolithic style (plant-based with some fish high in Omega 3 fatty acids)?

Why Do Some People Frequently Eat a Diet of 50% Raw Vegan Foods?

Why do some people eat raw, vegan food? One reason is because cooking kills off by heat the living food's nutritional resources. But some foods are more nutritious after cooking such as tomatoes and carrots. But they can be eaten raw as well and taste great prepared hot or cold.

Not all vegans are on raw food diets, and some raw food enthusiasts eat raw dairy products that are not pasteurized or homogenized for the health reasons they claim are there in raw animal products, for raw milk or cheese products.

It all depends upon how your body reacts to raw foods. You never know how your stomach will react to raw animal products or whether your digestive juices will be able to break down the fibers in some raw vegetables or not--for example, raw kale.

If you can't chew the raw kale, put it in your blender with some water, puree, and drain off the liquid. Then toss the finely ground kale with other vegetables such as chopped spinach, celery, and pulverized root vegetables such as carrots and finely chopped parsley, zucchini, or cucumbers.

Paleolithic Versus Neolithic Diets: Which is Healthier for You?

Are you as an individual healthier on a Paleolithic diet of grass-fed meats and blueberries with a few root vegetables in season? Check out the site, Paleolithic diet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The 'Paleo' Diet is the modern diet that simulates the nutrition of our evolutionary heritage - an ancestral, Paleolithic diet.

Remember that in those early times, most people had blood type O, which is a thin blood type. The thicker blood type A evolved later and does well on more plant and fish-based diets. B type blood is similar to O, and has more balance and less extreme as far as how cholesterol from meat is removed from the bloodstream. Type AB is similar to type A.

Whether you have or have not read the medical studies on blood types and how they remove fats from the blood depending on various gene variants, choose your diet based on what makes your body operate in the healthiest manner.

Not all Neolithic people were on plant-based diets. Some were consuming red meat and few grains or other vegetables. Check out the site, "Bone Analysis Suggests Neolithic People Preferred Meat ."

Here are resources on the Paleolithic and Neolithic type diets. The only idealistic diet that works is the one that's customized to your body's needs. Would you rather eat at a raw, vegan eatery or a restaurant that emphasizes meat or seafood when you dine outside your home? Which food makes you feel well? Which foods help your body when you take your usual blood tests at physical exams?

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