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New World Order is Pushing the Strange Paleo Diet
Back in 2012, I wrote an article “Soon You Will Be Eating Bugs”
Turns out the diet of eating bugs is gaining popularity. Eating bugs may be here sooner then you think. As the population increases, eating live stock for a source of protein won’t be practical. Numerous writers are pushing the Paleo Diet as an alternative. But why are they pushing this diet and are we ready to eat bugs?
Let us look at who’s behind the pushing of insects and the Pros and Cons.
The benefits of eating bugs
The Stone Age diet craze known as the Paleolithic Diet, made popular most recently by Dr. Loren Cordain’s best-seller The Paleo Diet. The premise is simple: If our early human ancestors couldn’t have eaten it, we shouldn’t, either. It’s the one time, it seems, that being like a caveman is a good thing.
Early hunter-gatherers had some major health advantages on most of us modern humans.
Prior to the agricultural revolution, early humans ate this Paleo Diet for 2.5 million years. The real Paleo Diet would have included bugs.
Lots and lots of bugs.
One thing that unites primatehood throughout the ages is an enduring appetite for bugs.The main reason for this is that insects are a much higher quality food compared to things like leaves, fruits, flowers, and even nuts. Just like other animals, insects are a trophic level two food source — they themselves have eaten, and thereby concentrated in their own tissues, the nutrients found in plant sources, providing the sorts of things that primates thrive on: protein, iron, calcium, and, best of all, healthy, unsaturated long-chain essential fatty acids (EFAs).
According to paleontologist Lucinda Backwell, who co-authored the study, termites have a higher nutritional content than rump steak.
“Termites are a valuable source of protein, fat, and essential amino acids, in the diets of both primates and modern humans,” wrote Backwell. “While rump steak yields 322 calories per 100 grams, and cod fish 74, termites provide 560 calories per 100 grams.”
Since it was usually the men doing the hunting the women would have been the ones gathering. While the men went out and often came back empty-handed, the women came home every day with at least something to feed the tribe, their mates, and, most important, their children.
The majority of the day-to-day protein was actually provided by women and, potentially, largely through insects.
Read More http://theweek.com/article/index/257208/the-benefits-of-eating-bugs
Not So fast With This Paleo Diet
To understand why the Paleo diet ranked dead last among U.S. News‘ group of health and medical experts, it’s worth first noting the criteria they used: A good diet must be effective at weight loss, safe, reasonably easy to follow, nutritious, and protective against diabetes and heart disease.
Paleo scored pretty low on all these metrics, from 1.7 (out of 5) on long-term weight loss and ease of use to a high of 2.3 for safety.
Paleo also ranked near-last in diabetes prevention and maintenance (31), hearth health (31), and ease to follow (27). In explaining the last-place overall ranking, U.S. News warned that dieters would be well-advised to look elsewhere. The big demerit, though, seems to be practicability. “A true Paleo diet might be a great option: Very lean, pure meats, lots of wild plants,” one expert told U.S. News, but following those strictures in the modern era is very difficult. (The similarly high-protein, low-carb Dukan diet was deemed “too restrictive,” with one expert calling it “idiotic.”)
U.S. News gave the Paleo backers a chance to respond, and Loren Cordain and colleagues at Colorado State University stepped up with a spirited rebuttal, citing five studies that purportedly showed Paleo-type diets “to be superior to Mediterranean diets, diabetic diets, and typical Western diets in regards to weight loss, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and risk factors for type 2 diabetes.”
The U.S. News editors dismissed those studies as “small and short, making strong conclusions difficult.” And that does seem to be the biggest takeaway from the rankings: Time and time again, the experts said that the lack of research into the Paleo diet made it difficult or impossible to verify the claims made by Paleo proponents. Make of that what you will.
Read More; http://theweek.com/article/index/254733/the-paleo-diet-is-a-horrible-way-to-start-the-new-year
So Who is behind the pushing of eating bugs,
The New World Order.
As part of its drive for global so-called “sustainability,” the United Nations has a new suggestion for the people of the world: Eat bugs instead of burgers. The controversial recommendations come from a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization touting the supposed benefits of “edible insects” and the role they might play in future “food security” — assuming the bugs are farmed in a “sustainable” way, of course. The latest UN document also outlines propaganda campaigns to persuade Westerners and shows how expanding the international regulatory regime can help bugs-as-food proponents achieve their vision.
While the latest leap toward influencing people’s dietary choices has drawn criticism and ridicule, the UN has long sought to expand its powers over virtually every sphere of human life. Despite growing opposition in the United States to the global body’s “sustainable development” scheme known as Agenda 21, the UN continues to spread its tentacles throughout the globe.
Whether people in the West will eventually eat UN-approved bugs remains to be seen. The fact that the international organization continues to broaden its size and scope, however, is indisputable. And it will keep happening in more and more areas of life as long as the American people put up with it — and pay for it.
Read More http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/15420-un-let-them-eat-bugs
