{"id":17611,"date":"2022-05-05T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=17611"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:00:58","slug":"does-a-paleo-diet-benefit-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/weight-loss\/does-a-paleo-diet-benefit-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Does a Paleo Diet Benefit Your Health?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is a diet modeled on prehistoric diets a good choice for modern humans?<\/p>\n<p>If you are trying to lose weight or eat healthily, maybe a paleo diet is your best bet.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, studies show that a paleo diet has benefits for people who have type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>If that is the case, what is a paleo diet exactly?<\/p>\n<h3>What is a paleo diet?<\/h3>\n<p>A paleo diet is a dietary plan that is based on foods that people eat during the Paleolithic era.<\/p>\n<p>Since many people in that era used to live for hundreds of years, they must have been eating a lot healthier than modern humans.<\/p>\n<h3>What to eat on a paleo diet?<\/h3>\n<p>A paleo diet typically consists of lean meat, fish, game, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.<\/p>\n<p>These were the types of food that people in that era used to eat from hunting and gathering.<\/p>\n<p>It limits food like legumes, dairy, and grains, that didn\u2019t exist in that era before farming became a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Paleo diets can still use oil, but only the ones you can get from fruits and nuts, such as walnut oil or olive oil.<\/p>\n<p>What you would typically eat on a paleo diet would be broiled salmon, broccoli, broiled lean pork, salad, lean beef roast, steamed greens, carrots, celery, and other fruits for snacks.<\/p>\n<p>These foods are tasty, even without dairy and fat\u2013 meaning you don\u2019t have to sacrifice taste to go on a paleo diet.<\/p>\n<h3>Purpose of a paleo diet<\/h3>\n<p>The main purpose of doing a paleo diet is to eat healthier by eating foods that only existed before farming was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>It is an excellent way to lose weight and manage type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<h3>Benefits of a Paleo Diet<\/h3>\n<p>Here are some benefits you can enjoy with a paleo diet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better blood pressure control<\/li>\n<li>Better appetite management<\/li>\n<li>Lower bad cholesterol like triglycerides<\/li>\n<li>Weight loss<\/li>\n<li>Improved glucose tolerance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a diet modeled on prehistoric diets a good choice for modern humans? If you are trying to lose weight or eat healthily, maybe a paleo diet is your best bet. Plus, studies show that a paleo diet has benefits for people who have type 2 diabetes. If that is the case, what is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703],"tags":[1557,784],"class_list":["post-17611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss","tag-paleo-diet","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}