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Naturopathic Medicine and the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
Published in Stephen T. Sinatra, Mark C. Houston, Nutritional and Integrative Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Epidemiological research has looked into the cardioprotective benefits of vegetarian, Mediterranean, and Paleolithic diets.1–7 These diets all focus on the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, and heart-healthy oils. They differ in how much, or little, meat, fish, grains, legumes, dairy, and eggs are consumed. In this section, modified vegetarian, Paleolithic, and Mediterranean diets are recommended as medically appropriate diets for preventing and treating heart disease. They all are very practical diets that not only improve the health of the cardiovascular system, but vitality in general. It’s very important to know how to implement and eat a healthy vegetarian or Paleolithic diet, as unhealthy versions are quite common without proper guidance.
Restricted Diets
Published in Praveen S. Goday, Cassandra L. S. Walia, Pediatric Nutrition for Dietitians, 2022
Margaret O. Murphy, Teresa M. Lee, Therese A. Ryzowicz, George J. Fuchs
The Paleolithic diet, also known as the Stone-Age Diet or simply Paleo, is described as a nutrition pattern for hunter-gatherers from approximately 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago. It originates from the evolutionary discordance hypothesis that human evolution ceased 10,000 years ago, thus our genetics are ill-equipped to process the modern diet and sedentary lifestyle and predispose humans to “diseases of civilization”. The principles of this diet include consuming foods that would only have been available to our ancestors during the Paleolithic age including lean meat (grass-fed preferred), seafood, eggs, fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and oils including avocado while limiting grains such as wheat and barley (which are the primary ingredients in bread, pasta, rice, and crackers), beans and other legumes, dairy products, potatoes and other starchy vegetables, and processed foods such as cookies, pastries, soda, and candy.
The folk sector
Published in Miho Ushiyama, Incorporating Patient Knowledge in Japan and the UK, 2019
When she was around 26 or 27, Haley began to see a Chinese herbal medicine practitioner. She was instructed to boil herbs to take every day, and at the same time avoid consuming milk and wheat. When she stopped eating wheat, the once rough skin on her legs softened. She also went to see a naturopath, as well as trying the caveman diet. The caveman diet is also called the Paleolithic diet or hunter-gatherer diet, and it involves avoiding foods such as dairy products, refined salt, sugar, and oils. After trying this for a few weeks, Haley saw a moderate improvement in her symptoms, but they flared up again soon after. She did not have much money back then, and she believes not being able to afford enough zinc was one of the reasons behind her flare-ups. The particular diet she was following also involved eating a large amount of the same type of food at once, and then doing the same with a different food; for example, she would eat a great deal of sesame for a few days and then a lot of shrimp for a few days. She says this made her more sensitive to the allergens she had consumed.
Associations of the Paleolithic Diet Pattern Scores and the Risk of Breast Cancer among Adults: A Case–Control Study
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2022
Mohammad Hassan Sohouli, Mansoureh Baniasadi, Ángela Hernández-Ruiz, Elma Izze da Silva Magalhães, Heitor O. Santos, Atieh Akbari, Mitra Zarrati
Some of the reasons for these associations are based on evolutionary theories, which suggest that modern and western lifestyle factors may be chronically imbalanced with the historical evolutionary adaptations that have shaped human physiology (11). In this evolutionary framework, particular emphasis has been placed on the disequilibrium between paleolithic and western lifestyles and their role in the development of some chronic diseases, due to the importance of these mismatches concerning traditional patterns of human evolution (12). In this regard, Whalen et al. developed a score to assess the Paleolithic Diet (PD) as discrepancy between the diet during the paleolithic period and the current dietary patterns (13–15). The PD is a supposedly healthy dietary pattern inspired by the consumption of wild foods and animals assumed to have been consumed in the Paleolithic era (16).
A Modified MCT-Based Ketogenic Diet Increases Plasma β-Hydroxybutyrate but Has Less Effect on Fatigue and Quality of Life in People with Multiple Sclerosis Compared to a Modified Paleolithic Diet: A Waitlist-Controlled, Randomized Pilot Study
Published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2021
Jennifer E. Lee, Tyler J. Titcomb, Babita Bisht, Linda M. Rubenstein, Rebecca Louison, Terry L. Wahls
Overall, the Paleo group experienced the most symptom improvements compared to the Control group, while the Keto group had changes in blood biomarkers indicative of nutritional ketosis. Prior studies and the current investigation modified the traditional Paleolithic diet to increase key nutrients for brain function (omega-3 fatty acids, coenzyme Q10, B vitamins, antioxidants) (68, 69), and have a favorable impact on molecular pathways related to MS disease severity (70, 71). Compared to the traditional Paleolithic diet, this modified Paleolithic diet included: 1) higher recommendation of specific vegetables and fruits, and encouraged seaweed, algae and nutritional yeast; 2) a moderate reduction in meat and specific types of meats; and 3) targeted personalized vitamin supplementation. In a previous study, pwMS consuming the modified Paleolithic diet reported consuming 7–8 servings of fruits and vegetables per day (14), which was associated with decreased fatigue (13, 15). Similarly, other pilot studies have noted significant reductions in fatigue when using other vegetable-rich diets such as the Mediterranean (72) and plant-based diets (73). In this study, the Keto group was instructed to consume 3 servings per day fewer fruit and vegetables than the Paleo group. Diet quality is consistently related to better MS outcomes (74, 75), perhaps reduced fruit and vegetable consumption by the Keto group explain the differences in clinical outcomes in this study.
Associations of Evolutionary-Concordance Diet and Lifestyle Pattern Scores with Incident, Sporadic Colorectal Adenoma in a Pooled Case-Control Study
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2022
McKenna J. Penley, Doratha A. Byrd, Roberd M. Bostick
Evolutionary-concordance diet and lifestyle pattern scores were developed to quantify the relative closeness of diets and lifestyles to those in Paleolithic times, in order to address the evolutionary discordance hypothesis, which posits that recent changes in human diet and lifestyle, relative to those of our Paleolithic-era ancestors, may explain the sudden rises in chronic diseases, including CRC, during the 20th century (5, 6). The Paleolithic diet is characterized as high in fruits, vegetables, and lean meats, low in sugar and salt, and excluding alcohol, grains, and dairy (5, 6), and the Paleolithic lifestyle is characterized as involving high physical activity, energy balances yielding low adiposity, and not smoking (5).