Happy New year! Lovey’s Celebrating 11 Years Your LOCAL Health Food Store and Café Organic Produce and Groceries Salad, Soup, Hot & Juice bars Cafe • Catering • Supplements Health & Beauty Aids Wheat & Gluten-Free foods specials: Source Natural Supplements and Planetary Formula Supplements 25% off 910-509-0331 Landfall Shopping Center • 1319 Military Cutoff Road www.loveysmarket.com The Paleolithic (Paleo) diet, popularized by Colorado’s Dr. Loren Cordain, was founded on this premise. It mimics the diet of the cavemen by including fish, grass-fed meats, eggs, vegetables, fruit, fungi, roots and nuts, while excluding grains, legumes, dairy products, potatoes, refined salt, refined sugar and processed oils. In essence: If a caveman couldn’t eat it, then it’s not included in the Paleo diet, as it is believed by some that this is the ideal diet for human health and well-being. Proponents of this diet say the health outcomes are numerous. Nutritionist and owner of Consults in Wellness Courtney Wilson, RN MSN FNPc, doesn’t pre-scribe a set Paleo or any other diet to her patients, viewing the process as an individual wellness and behavior issue rather than only a weight-loss issue. Wilson, who has consulted with clients on the Paleo diet, says eliminating processed foods will change one’s life. “If we all ate whole foods and less refined sugar and processed foods and white flour, it would dramatically reduce diseases like diabetes, cancer and inflammatory diseases. Food is medicine,” Wilson says. “I think that fad diets often fail because there is so much confusion. There is no balance and a whole foods focus helps people strike that balance they need to focus on what they should eat rather than what they should eliminate. Patients do inherently better when we move them to things they should be eating.” The difference between dieting and a diet Tony Cowden leads nutrition classes at his gym, CrossFit Wilmington, and recommends his students eat clean, which means eating preservative-free, organic, grass-fed foods from local sources, and depending on their workout regimen, a lot of lean meat. “Eat meat (to include eggs); dark green vegetables; healthy, natural fats; fruits that end in the word ‘berry,’ very little starch and no refined sugar,” says Cowden, a former Army Special Forces soldier who converted to Paleo years ago. “Paleo is just a healthy way of eating that you can do every day.” Brad Barth works out at CrossFit, and in less than a year, has lost 80 pounds on a Paleo-related diet he calls Primal. At age 45, the former athlete saw the potential for protein power when he realized that even after completing a marathon, his weight was holding him back. “My twin babies became toddlers this year. When they started walking, it was off to the races. I needed to get in shape to keep up with the toddlers and for my two older boys. It was necessary to stay in shape because my children need a healthy father, so I started researching how to transform my body and life,” Barth says. He added an early-morning, efficient CrossFit workout, and added more everyday activity with his wife and children. His entire family is healthier now, Barth says. 80 WBM january 2014
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