Paleo vs Vegan: Let’s Get Ready To Rumble
Paleo vs Vegan
The battle begins: Paleo vs Vegan. Having finished Cordain and Friel’s Paleo Diet for Athletes (terrific, but not actually Paleo! More on that later…) I am starting Brendan Brazier’s Thrive book, recommended by Rich Roll. Of course, having grown up on a farm and lived close to critters all my life, my heart sides way more with vegan than with the slaughtering of beasts, especially since domesticated stockyard animals have little nutritionally to do with the mastodons and other wild animals hunted by the Old Stone Agers, whose diets we are now supposed to follow in order to…live…as…long…as…they…did…?
Nevertheless, I quite like much of what Paleo has to offer: non-processed foods, no dairy, and an emphasis on the importance of blood alkalinity, for starters. Er, wait, that’s vegan. No, it’s Paleo. Stop, you’re both right.
There can be little doubt that eating a moderate amount grass-fed lean meats and cold water fish is healthy from a purely physiological standpoint. And congratulations, grass-fed butter, you just made Superfood Of The Month!
After being warned away from those evil steel cut oats, whole wheat, quinoa, lentils, and black beans by the Paleoids (they make a good case, I must say, especially with regards to their net-acid effect on the blood), I’m looking forward to the vegan argument as to why they might be included in one’s diet after all.
Let’s get ready to rumble!
If you can’t decide which diet is for you, give them each a trial run for a few months and check your results. See which gives you better energy and better health.
Nobody needs to ‘rumble’ about anything. These topics have been discussed and re-hashed again and again – a simple web search will find all the points each group usually makes, and all the studies that each group usually cites. No point going through all that again.
Try for yourself.
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