Telamon Press - The Quick & Easy Paleo Cookbook: 77 Paleo Diet Recipes Made in Minutes

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The Paleo diet offers these benefits and more. The Paleo diet is based on the idea that our bodies, which evolved over millions of years to ingest a hunter-gatherer diet, simply cant tolerate the modern diets low-nutrient, highly refined carbohydrates and toxic chemicals. By eating in a way that mimics the way our ancestors ate before the agricultural and industrial revolutions, Paleo diet followers hope to optimize their health while minimizing the risk of chronic disease. In the process, many find that they also experience other benefits:

• Weight loss
• Clearer skin and elimination of skin conditions like eczema
• Lowered blood pressure and reduced symptoms of chronic illnesses such as type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and celiac disease
• Reduced allergic reactions
• Elimination of bothersome digestive symptoms such as gas, bloating, diarrhea, and constipation

The Quick & Easy Paleo Cookbook is filled with information that will help you incorporate the Paleo diet into your life with ease. You will gain a full understanding of the theory behind the Paleo diet and youll have the information you need to adopt the diet yourself. While many Paleo cookbooks and websites rely on complicated or time-consuming cooking techniques and expensive or hard-to-find ingredients, this book provides recipes that are, as the title states, quick and easy to make, and that use ingredients that are both affordable and commonly available.

And all the recipes in the book can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. The book is divided into two parts. provides you with all the basics of the Paleo diet. It examines the Paleo way of eating and the related health benefits. It also provides a detailed guide to getting started on the Paleo diet, including lists of which foods to eat and which to avoid, and advice on meal planning, stocking your pantry, and cooking quick and delicious meals that adhere to the plan. offers seventy-seven quick and easy recipes that follow the Paleo diet guidelines.

These dishes are a cinch to make, highly nutritious, and full of flavor. With these recipes in hand, youll begin your Paleo diet eating delicious and satisfying meals. PART ONE Getting Started CHAPTER ONE The Basics of the Paleo Diet In its most basic terms, the Paleo diet is a diet that mimics the eating habits of our ancestors. This means a diet consisting of whole, minimally processed foods that could have been gathered or hunted in our ancestors immediate environs. While its true that to adopt the Paleo diet, youll need to overhaul the way you eat and think about food, this book will make it easy. WHAT IS THE PALEO DIET? Often referred to as the caveman diet, primal diet, or Paleolithic diet, the Paleo diet resembles the eating habits of the early humans who populated Earth. WHAT IS THE PALEO DIET? Often referred to as the caveman diet, primal diet, or Paleolithic diet, the Paleo diet resembles the eating habits of the early humans who populated Earth.

These people didnt have agriculture. They didnt cultivate crops or mill grains. They didnt eat refined sugars, grains, dairy, oils, or any of the highly processed foods that are so common today. And so they probably did not suffer from modern-day diseases like type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. These early humans subsisted on a diet made up of whatever foods they could find in their natural environment: free-range meats, fish, nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables. In other words, they ate unprocessed, seasonal, local, organic, whole foods.

But around ten thousand years ago, many humans settled in groupsfor support, companionship, safety, and other reasonsand they began to cultivate vegetables and domesticate animals for their food. These people were no longer wandering the land in search of their next meal. They became more sedentary, and learned to refine grains and other foods in order to have a predictable, easily accessible, and convenient source of nutrition. The downside of all this newfound convenience is that the changes in the human diet, combined with reduced physical activity, have caused us to become increasingly overweight and plagued by diseases. The theory behind the Paleo diet is that we humans simply havent adapted to eating all of these highly processed foods. These processed foods, Paleo proponents assert, cause inflammation at the cellular level, promoting disease.