Cycle 2 – Module 8 – Lecture 2 – The best diet to lose weight and to be slim and healthy (3h19)

Content is one video of 3h19, a PDF presentation file, and PDF references on:

• The best diet for slimness and health is the Paleo diet
• Differences of the Paleo diet compared to the modern, ketogenic, vegetarian, and vegan diets
• Characteristics: number of meals per day, which should be the most abundant meal, what to do with deviations from the diet, what to eat and drink, alternatives, what to avoid eating and drinking, safe raw and cooked foods, optimal cooking temperature and mediums
• High-protein diets and their effect on body composition, weight loss, and hormone levels
• High-fat ketogenic diets and their effect on body composition, weight loss, and hormone levels
• Low-carb diets and their effect on body composition, weight loss, and hormone levels

 

Abstract:

This presentation is crucially important not only for losing weight with a well-adjusted diet but also for maintaining the weight loss through the years.

A critical appraisal of the Paleolithic diet is that it consists of eating types of foods that have been available to humans for millions of years, such as meat, fish, organ meat, poultry, fruits, and vegetables. An in-depth investigation of archeological sites and the adaptation of the human gastrointestinal tract to Paleo foods and not to modern foods (starting from the teeth to the colon) shows why Paleo-type foods are better. The results of studies, including a meta-analysis of studies, comparing the Paleo diet and other diets on weight loss, glucometabolism, and lipids, show the greater efficacy of the Paleo diet.

Two meals per day, with the main meal at breakfast or lunch, makes this diet in timing close to the intermittent fasting diet.

Drinks and foods that do and do not belong in the Paleo diet are reviewed, and information is provided on correct cooking methods and mediums (steaming, boiling, or cooking at a low temperature in the oven). The toxicity of trans fatty acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and other toxins generated by a high cooking temperature and the use of oils as a medium are discussed with consideration of the scientific studies.

The effect of high-protein diets, high-fat ketogenic diets, and low-carb diets and their impact on body composition, weight loss, and hormone levels are investigated, further showing why the Paleo diet for many people is the best diet to lose weight and maintain weight loss.

This session is illustrated with many pictures and scientific references.

 

Educational outcome:
To transmit knowledge on what is the better diet to lose weight and maintain weight loss as well as how to implement it.

 

Learning outcomes:
Physicians learn

1. All the important theoretical and practical facts about the Paleolithic diet
2. To provide adequate information to patients on the Paleolithic diet and its drinks and foods, timing of the meals, etc.
3. More about intermittent fasting, high-protein diets, high-fat ketogenic diets, and low-carb diets