This article (http://paleodietlifestyle.com/paleo-101/) is geared towards people who want to try out the Paleo diet and who just want to quickly know what they should and shouldn’t do.
No background science here or lengthy explanations, only 15 easy rules to follow to kick start your Paleo journey. It’s up to you to decide to what extent you want to follow those rules, but if you follow them 100% you can be assured that you are eating the best food for your body and greatly investing in your long term health and well-being.
What is this?
The zone diet says that your meals should have:
40% of your calories come from low-glycemic Carbohydrates -
30% from protein
30% from fat (good fats)
How do you know how much of what you should be eating?
They broke it down based on body type. So for example if you are a medium male you would be on a 17 block diet. A medium female would be on a 11 block diet.
What is a block?
A block is how much food from each of the above mentioned categories should be eaten at a meal.
1 block =
9 grams of Carbohydrates
7 grams of Protien
3 grams of fat (assuming you have 1.5 grams of fat in 1 block of protein, you only need to add 1.5 grams of fat to each block to reach the 3 grams)
Example:
Medium Male= 17 blocks so a Sample day would look like this:
| Breakfast | Lunch | Snack | Dinner | Snack | |
| Protein | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Carbohydrate | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Fat | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| - |
How much of each food equals 1 block?
Come ask us for a list. There are too many to list here.
Once you figure out how many blocks you are on, and you have the glycemic index list, try some of our zone friendly recipes.
What is Paleo?
Eat Meat, Veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, no sugar, no processed food.
Basically if you could have hunted or gathered it you can eat it. There are some really amazing recipes on the recipes tab for Paleo foods.
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