well, lets look at it
most paleo's will say they avoid the big 3
dairy,
legumes
grains
yet, cultured dairy is fine in small amounts
soaked and sprouted legumes and grains are okay, as long as its done long enough for about 2 days
and as long as it doesnt go over about 10 per cent of your diet, they shouldnt affect your health much , like things associated with excessive grain use
Paleo diet is just philosophy and ideology. Just so you can call yourself a paleo eater ? so what ? thats just ego
On what grounds are these foods "ok"? Do you know the physiology of grains, legumes, and dairy, and how they work in the body? Do you know how a human digests food? Grains and legumes are the worst of the bunch, if you wanna consume raw milk, fine, as long as you dont have a problem with it. However, I/we care very little what anybody says about who ate what in this period of time and that period of time. Why? because modern science proves what foods we can properly digest, assimilate, and utilize. Modern science knows that heating foods, and certainly frying foods (but heating foods in general) creates a whole s*$t load of toxins and carcinogens. These carcinogens range from lipid peroxides, AGEs(Advanced Glycation Endproducts), heterocyclic amines, acrylamides, arsenic, to estrogen, and mutagens. Dont test us with the science behind the issue, most of us on here have a plethora of documents regarding these issues. Hell, there are whole entire text books written on heterocyclic amines and arsenic alone. And it doesnt take much for a scientist to isolate those carcinogens from food. Most of the levels of these carcinogens and toxins are over 1000 times higher than the limits of what water companies test for in their drinking water. Besides cooking, naturally, grains and legumes are very toxic and have toxins ranging from enzyme inhibitors, lectins, inflammation causing toxins. Though the uneducated theorist would say, well then cook them. Well, remember what I just said above about heat created carcinogens, and toxins, this applies to all food, some worse, some less. And even still, after cooking, fermenting, sprouting, etc... No scientist was ever able to rid grains and legumes of all the toxins. In fact Estrogen is the most resistant and even proper soy fermentation will still show high estrogens in the bean.
Almost all grains and legumes contain trypsin inhibitors. The enzyme trypsin that comes from your pancreas and raw food is the main enzyme against all cancers. Why would you want to inhibit the enzyme that will destroy cancer? All grains and legumes contain allergens, no matter what kind, doesnt matter. The philosophy of our diet is the strongest around. Most people cant break free from the clutches of societal norms and would rather be "normal" and keep eating nice juicy cheesesteaks and pizza. However we RPDers eat to live, not live to eat. We abide by the wisdom of nature, not man. And we consider ourselves just as much animal as any other species on this planet. No other animal/ species on this planet eats cooked food. If they do, they have cancer. this has been observed in most house hold pets. What makes humans so arrogant to think we can just disregard the simply laws of nature and eat cooked food? We are not aliens.
Friend, I hate to burst you bubble, but it must be done sir. All of the information and science regarding food has pretty much already been done. Sure there's more to study in food science. But if you believe that the government and FDA, or any other agency/ institution have gotten your back and gives you high quality and safe food, you're in fairy tale land. I dont say all this to be an arrogant dick either, its to help you. Please make the right choice.
