Issue 56

 

 

 

 

Please feel free to email me at tracy@cavemaneating.com with questions or ideas about this newsletter or about Caveman Eating.

 

News

 
The two talks I gave in L.A. went great! Between twenty to twenty-five people showed up each night. The talks lasted an hour and people asked excellent questions.

 

I explained the basics of Caveman Eating, which means eating the foods that our ancestors ate and that we're genetically designed to eat.

 

This leads to a much higher state of health, including more energy, weight-loss and much lower risks of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, osteoporosis and systemic inflammation.

 

My mom and I prepared lots of sample Caveman meals to show people. We talked about how to prepare meals and snacks. At the end, there was spaghetti squash with turkey meat sauce for everyone to sample. The consensus was two thumbs up on my mom's Caveman cooking!

 

 

 

I also showed people the "proof" copy of The Caveman Diet. This is the copy that comes hot off the press so that you can see what the book looks like before you offer it for sale.

 

I'm working right now on making a few editing changes and improving the back cover. Once I'm finished with that, the book will be ready. I'll send you an email in the next few days to let you know when it's complete. Then you can purchase it and begin your real journey of Caveman Eating!

 

 

 

Thank you to everyone who came to the talks. It was heart-warming to see you all there. From talking to people afterwards, I can tell that people got a lot of information and motivation to help transform their health for the better.

 

 

 

Pizza is one of our favorite foods. Most of us would be hard-pressed to give it up, even for better health. But did cavemen eat pizza?

 

The short answer is: No. While cavemen ate lots of delicious foods, they didn't eat pizza.

 

We know this because, for one thing, they didn't have cheese. Dairy products were only invented 8,000 years ago and were only consumed by limited populations. Most people alive today don't produce the enzyme lactase that helps people properly digest lactose, the sugar found in milk. This is because for most of human history, people didn't eat dairy products. In many parts of the world, people still don't. While cavemen did hunt wild cows, people didn't begin milking animals until the advent of agricuture which occurred within the last 10,000 years.

 

Also, cavemen didn't eat much grain. There was some coarsely-ground grain consumed in some regions, but it's believed that grain consumption was much more limited during caveman times than it is today. Also, there were no "white" or refined grains. This means there was no white bread, white rice or pasta--and also, no white pizza crust.

 

 

 

The real problem with eating pizza is that pizza is low in protein compared to carbohydrates. Because of this, it tends to stimulate people's appetite, so they need to eat more of it to feel full. 

 

When you break pizza down by nutrients and compare it to an ideal meal, you get the following numbers:

 

 

 

Food	Carbs	Protein	Fat
Cheese Pizza	50%	17%	33%
Ideal Meal	40%	30%	30%

 

*Based on calories.

 

 

The numbers show that cheese pizza contains fifty percent carbs, compared to the ideal meal, which contains forty percent.

 

Even more striking, the protein in pizza is only slightly more than half of the protein in an ideal meal.

 

Interestingly, when it comes to cheese pizza, the fat is not all that high. Chees pizza, as well as vegetable pizza, have around as much fat as an ideal meal.

 

 

 

What makes pizza fattening, then, is not the fat it contains but the fact that it's low in protein. The low protein content of pizza makes people feel hungry when they eat it. They end up eating more pizza--and more calories--than they need.

 

For example, one slice of a large Papa John's pizza contains three hundred calories. This would be fine if people stopped at one or two slices and didn't add any other calories.

 

However, if you were to eat two slices, plus a twelve-ounce soda, you'd get seven hundred and fifty calories. For a large, active man, this is not too bad, but for anyone else it's too much. And as any large, active man will tell you, two slices of pizza and a soda is not exactly a stick-to-your-ribs meal. You'd be plenty hungry for a full meal later on.

 

The bottom line is that pizza is just not that filling. It takes a lot of it to make you full. By the time you've filled up on pizza, you've eaten a lot of calories.

 

 

 

Fortunately, there are ways to make high-protein, filling versions of pizza on the Caveman Diet. One version is to replace the crust with slices of baked eggplant and to top the pizza with plenty of grilled chicken and vegetables.

 

This is Eggplant Pizza, one of the delicious recipes featured in the Caveman recipe book, which you received in the last newsletter.

 

Here's the Caveman recipe book again. Feel free to forward it to your friends:

 

 

 

The recipe for Eggplant Pizza is on Page 7.

Caveman Quiz

 

Caveman Eating Basics

 

 

 

 

 

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