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What Can I Eat? Paleo vs. Non-Paleo Chart

Switching up your eating habits can be hard especially in the beginning. Whether you are eating healthier to lose weight, battle disease, or simply feel better, the Paleo diet may be for you. It’s full of nutritious foods including meats, veggies, fruits, and healthy fats. Stuff like refined sugars, grains, and dairy are avoided because they negatively impact gut health, cause inflammation, and disrupt hormones. Any easy way to remember what is okay to eat is to think about the Paleolithic times (or caveman days). When you want to eat something, but are not sure if it’s Paleo, just ask yourself WWCD (what would cavemen do)? Do you think cavemen had the ability to milk the wild buffalo they just chased down and killed to feed the family? Probably not. Did they process wheat and make hamburger buns for that buffalo meat? Very unlikely. To make it a little easier for you, here is a chart to see the do’s and don’ts of Paleo:

YES Foods- These foods are high in nutritional value, reduce inflammation, detox your liver and bowels, promote hormone regulation, clear your skin, regulate your immune system, help to maintain a healthy weight, and provides healthy digestion.

NO Foods- These foods do all the opposite. They cause inflammation, are hard for the body to digest, have low nutritional value, irritate the gut and hormone levels, build and store unhealthy fats, and to top it all off some are addictive making us crave the very things that are killing our bodies.

Paleo is not just a diet, it’s a lifestyle. You can choose to start slowly by eliminating things day by day until you are fully Paleo, or you can go all in on day one and see quicker results. Either way you are making a choice to live and feel healthier for yourself and for your loved ones.