Should you put your child on a Paleolithic or Neolithic diet or pass on fads?

Should you put your child on a paleolithic diet to clear up inflammation? Or can a neolithic diet help your child clear out the excess fat that's perhaps changing your child's hormones? Many nutritionists don't rush to sample the latest fad diets, but they do look at new research. Is your child building up blood-related problems as a possible reaction to too many cereal grains? 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.

Parents have a nutrition decision to make. Should you put your child on a neolithic or paleolithic menu for health? A modified Mediterranean diet? Or should your child be on a standard American diet? Maybe your child's 'ancestral' diet, that is the best diet that you can tailor to the metabolic response of your child's body to foods is best.

How can you tell whether your child has inherited the genes for the ancestral diet of his great grand parents or those much further back in history unless you can tailor your foods to your child's genes? And that may or may not help unless you're testing for allergies, metabolic responses, or even testing the entire genome (expensive) to get the big picture.

How about a vegan or a no-gluten diet? Perhaps you'd need a diet that doesn't include foods to which your child is allergic? The latest fad diet sweeping the nation is to decide whether to put your entire family on a paleolithic diet or a neolithic diet.

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.

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.

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?

How do you know which food to select when you're told to 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. But does blood type really matter? Or is the metabolic and genetic response of the entire body more important than only the blood's response to a food because you may be reacting as a sum total of all your ancestries?

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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