Great Plains Feast - For those of us seeking to feed
a more ancestral diet to our dogs, the Great Plains Feast is worth consideration.
In addition to avoiding potential allergens, the point of going grain - free is to feed your dog
a more ancestral diet that largely focuses on protein and fat.
Not exact matches
There are a number of
diet programs that encourage eating
more like our
ancestral Stone Age caveman (or cavewoman) with plenty of meat and veggies, and cutting down or eliminating grains, starches, added or refined sugars, and chemical preservatives.
What's
more, a nutrient rich
diet that carefully maintains an ideal 1:1 ratio of omega - 3 fats to omega - 6 fats like
ancestral cultures won't remedy this situation on its own.
Then, after I moved from a strict plant - based
diet to one that was
more paleo / primal /
ancestral, I came across Stefani's «PCOS Unlocked» program, one that I highly, highly recommend for women with this condition.
(These experimental
diets contained a higher percentage of fat than is typically observed in an ad libitum LCD, and thus they were
more characteristic of an
ancestral Inuit
diet or the ketogenic
diet for epilepsy.)
She wanted to get my opinion and comment on all things «paleo
diet» So naturally, as someone who has followed a paleo /
ancestral template for quite a -LSB-...] Read
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If you're interested in
more of the actual science about why saturated fat can be healthy for you, I have an article below written by a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry called The Truth about Saturated Fat - it's a must read if you want to understand the science about why saturated fats have been falsely villified and how to enjoy these foods that have always been part of the
ancestral human
diet.
Over at Free The Animal, we have been using a lot of your research papers to convince people that a
diet high in inulin and resistant starch is
more «
ancestral» than bacon - n - eggs.
I am passionate about the
ancestral diet and everything implied by «going back to our roots», but I also raise a brow at
more rigid interpretations, assumptions, and academic flourishes about true replication of a Paleolithic
diet.
The LA Lakers are way up the cutting edge of this stuff and that's some really cool stuff that Cate Shanahan is doing with them and if you just go google like Lakers
diet or Lakers Cate Shanahan, you'll see some of the things they're doing, I mean like, you know, I was having this discussion with one of my buddies who's scout for major league soccer, I told him that if he ever had a team that actually wanted to kind of incorporate a lot of these
ancestral living concepts and healthy eating concepts and you know, kinda introduce these stuff in the professional sports that I would be
more than happy to help just because like this stuff flies under the radar so much and when we're talking about everything from NFL athletes finishing up their career and having a ton of brain inflammation that can be controlled with stuff like you know, curcumin and huperzine and a lot of these elements that can for example decrease hypoperfusion to the brain or increase your ability to repair your nervous system.
This is, unfortunately, the opposite of how most pets are fed since the majority of commercial
diets are low protein with 50 % or
more carbohydrates and only a 5 - 10 % moisture content (compared to 75 % found in a carnivores»
ancestral diet.
BLUE Wilderness recipes mimic your dog's
ancestral diet with
more of the unique meats wolves hunt in the wild.
Just like the theory behind the Paleo
Diet for humans, protein - based, grain - free dog foods
more closely mimics a canine's natural or «
ancestral»
diet as a carnivore.
Advocates of feeding a raw dog food
diet suggest that feeding dogs uncooked food is
more natural and true to their
ancestral diets.
Excessive weight gain, dull coat quality, and an increased risk for diabetes mellitus may all be improved upon with a transition to a
diet which
more closely resembles the feline's
ancestral diet and is biologically balanced for their unique nutritional requirements.
This High in Protein
diet contains less than 17 % total carbohydrates, which is
more typical of the
ancestral diet dogs consumed before commercial
diets were available.
Protein — A protein - based
diet that is free of grains
more closely mimics a dog's
ancestral beginnings.
In this blog, I provide
more detail and discuss why it is difficult to mimic the
ancestral or «prey - model»
diet.