Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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This is my first question. Started caring about diet only recently. I want to give the idea of reducing PUFAs a try and see how I feel. How do you do it? What do you have to avoid and what do you replace it with?

EDIT: Thanks all for your answers. I'd like to add that I also read that Mayonnaise has a lot of PUFAs.

edited Mar 29 2012 at 0:02

asked Mar 27 2012 at 21:16

Anon
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As a side-note, does anyone have a PUFA ratio for chicken breast – Eric Mar 27 2012 at 23:07

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A diet based on grass-fed ruminants, coconut oil, butter, fruit and root veggies should do the trick. – Bruno Mar 28 2012 at 8:05

PrairieProf · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-27 21:45:03Z UTC

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Cook with butter, animal fat, coconut oil, or ghee. Olive oil is OK for salad dressings. NO industrial seed oils (canola, soybean, corn). NO commercial salad dressing!

Eat less chicken and pork, more red meat.

No processed food.

Limit nuts.

answered Mar 27 2012 at 21:45

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	grass fed red meat should probably be the specification too... – MayaBee Mar 27 2012 at 23:02
	Thanks. I was only cooking with butter and olive oil. Is the latter bad (using olive oil for something other than salad dressing)? – Anon Mar 27 2012 at 23:58
	Grass fed meat is good, but I've repeatedly read that that the real Omega 6 difference in grass-fed vs. conventional beef is negligible. You shouldn't cook with olive oil -- it doesn't stand up to heat. OK to drizzle over cooked vegetables. – PrairieProf Mar 28 2012 at 13:28
	Very well said PrairieProf! – Primal Toad Mar 29 2012 at 0:37

Matt · Answer 2 · 2012-03-28 14:35:32Z UTC

The biggest bang for your buck comes from reducing highly oxidized PUFAs (i.e. refined oils from seeds). Nuts are next up there for damaged PUFAs, but really only if roasted. Animals fats, raw nuts, avocados, etc... yes, they have higher PUFA content, but it's largely undamaged, unoxidized PUFA, so that's not a bad thing.

bombolin · Answer 3 · 2012-03-27 22:49:49Z UTC

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+1 on limiting the nuts

answered Mar 27 2012 at 22:49

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Eric · Answer 4 · 2012-03-28 05:07:04Z UTC

Avoid nuts, seed oils, poultry.

You can use crono-meter to check on grams of PUFAs in foods. Omega 6 is easy to overconsume. Most folks under consume Omega 3.

Another hack is to not cook/gently cook your PUFAs. I hard boil eggs for example.

Aglaee the Paleo RD · Answer 5 · 2012-03-28 07:39:41Z UTC

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Avoid processed foods, try not to eat out to much, opt for grass-fed meat instead of grain-fed meat, avoid nuts and nut butter (except for coconut) and use animal fats! =)

answered Mar 28 2012 at 7:39

Aglaee the Paleo RD
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How to reduce PUFA consumption?

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