jschwab wrote:Yeah, you
jschwab said:
Yeah, you cannot do Paleo without meat. There is just too much missing.
Yeah I have accepted that now. I read what is below and thought I could do it, but it just didn't provide the energy I felt I needed. If I didn't excercise as much as I do it would be an awesome diet. But man nothing works quite as well as rice and beans for a pre workout meal.
http://www.thepaleodiet.com/faqs/
The Paleo Diet for Vegetarians
Q: I want to try out the Paleo Diet but I'm a vegetarian. I eat tofu, seitan, tempeh, fish, eggs, and cheese as replacements for meat. I understand I have to leave out the beans, but is it ok to use the other replacements?
A: The Paleo Diet is based on foods similar to what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate during the paleolithic era - 2.6 million year to 10,000 years ago. That means 99.6% of our evolutionary history, hence our genome is perfectly adapted to eat foods similar to what we found during that period of time. This means eating lean meats, seafood, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. The agricultural revolution (10,000 years ago) lead to a dramatic change in human nutrition. Cereal grains, legumes, dairy, vegetable oils, salt, alcohol, and refined sugars comprise 72% of the nutrition in the western society. These last foods contain harmful substances associated to many "diseases of civilization", such as diabetes, celiac disease and other autoimmune diseases, obesity, hypertension, certain cancers, acne, polycistic ovary syndrome, myopia, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, etc.
Tofu and tempeh are sources of soy bean agglutinin (SBA). SBA has harmful properties because they break membranes and this can induce increased intestinal permeability which is associated to certain autoimmune diseases and low-grade inflammation. SBA has also been shown to stimulate the immune system, something we don't want in an inflammatory disease.
Seitan has the worst part of wheat, namely gluten. Gluten is a prolamine peptide associated to many diseases typical of western civilization such as Celiac Disease, Type 1 Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, Ataxia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and others.
So if you want to eat a paleolithic diet without eating meat you should ensure that you're getting adequate protein intake using egg powder protein shakes along with some supplements:
[*]Vitamin B12 (1 mg per day)[*]Taurine (1 gram per day)[*]Carnosine (800 mg per day)[*]Carnitine (400 mg per day)[/list]