The Quick Answer
Yes, beets are Paleo.
Why Are Beets Paleo?
Beets are Paleo because they are a root vegetable that is loaded with a variety of vitamins and minerals. In fact, beets are known to be a health promoting and disease preventing functional food.
Researchers consider beetroot to be a promising therapeutic treatment in a range of health issues associated with oxidative stress and inflammation; their antioxidants are even considered to have chemo-preventive activity.
Beets are a versatile vegetable that can be prepared in several ways, even eaten raw and added to salads or juices, but watch out for packaged beets that are ...
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How Can The Paleo Diet Help Prevent Liver Fat?
Your liver is important...
Your liver is one of the hardest-working, multi-tasking organs in your entire body. Its roles include:
detoxifying the blood and cleansing the body of accumulated chemicals, alcohol, excess hormones, medications and toxins
regulating blood composition to balance levels of protein, fat and sugar
producing bile and enzymes needed for the digestion of fats
breaking down and expelling excess hormones to prevent imbalances
storing extra nutrients including iron, vitamins and minerals
helping to balance electrolyte levels (like calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium)
What causes fat to accumulate ...
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5 Tips to Live an 80/20 Paleo Lifestyle
If you’ve been around Ultimate Paleo Guide much, you’ve probably heard of the term 80/20 paleo.
80% paleo. 20% everything else.
The idea is that you can eat paleo and still live life. Most people go on diets and feel “restricted.” Paleo is the opposite - the goal is to expand your life - not limit it.
Every now and then, if you want to go out, hang out with friends, get a drink or have pizza - you can - but make sure it’s only every now & then - not EVERY DAY.
What gets most people into trouble is that the 20% turns into 30% which turns into 40% which turns into 50%, etc. Suddenly, eating paleo & staying healthy is the ...
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Medium Chain Triglycerides – What You Need To Know
What Are Medium Chain Triglycerides?
Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs) are a type of dietary fat.
Dietary fats consist of molecules made up of carbon atoms. These individual carbon atoms compose linked chains. The chains range in length from 2 to 22 carbon atoms.
Long Chain Fatty acids (LCTs) are the most common form of fat consumed in the average diet. LCTs have chains that are 12 to 18 carbon atoms long.
MCTs are unique as they have considerably smaller chains. On average, MCTs have chains made up of 6 to 10 carbon atoms.
MCTs resemble the dietary compound carbohydrates more than a form of fat. This gives MCTs an advantage ...
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The Lowdown on Fructose
What Is Fructose?
Fructose (also known as fruit sugar) is a form of sugar belonging to the hexose class of sugars, which include any sugar that contains six carbon atoms. (Source)
Fructose is a sugar that is found naturally in most fruits and certain vegetables, and is one of the least carcinogenic nutritive sugars.
Fructose is found in significantly higher quantities in fruits than in vegetables. Reducing sugars, which are a combination of glucose and fructose, are the primary source of soluble carbohydrates found within most fruits as well as seedless raisins.
Although certain vegetables do contain fructose, it is in much ...
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A Beginner’s Guide on Histamines
What are histamines?
Histamines are a biologically active compound that is found within the majority of living organisms, from human beings and other mammals to plants, bacteria, and insects.
Histamines are classified as being an amine, which is an organic molecule based on ammonia’s chemical structure.
Scientists Henry Dale and George Barger were responsible for isolating histamine from ergot, a deadly plant fungus, in the early 19th century. Shortly after that, the two English scientists managed to isolate histamine from animal tissues.
Histamines can be found within plants such as stinging nettles. The delicate hairs on the ...
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Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian Try The Keto Diet
The big news out this week is that Kim Kardashian - as part of her post-pregnancy fitness routine, incorporated segments from intermittent fasting and the keto diet.
Whether or not you're a KK fan, if you're interested in the keto diet, it's a great way to start getting healthy and many people find it helpful to lose weight (for a ton of success stories, check /r/keto on reddit).
Keto Diet Basics
The keto diet is pretty simple (and very similar to the paleo diet).
You focus is on eating fruits, vegetables, meats and eggs - with minimal carbs (less than 20g/day). Keto generally recommends you eat a lot of fat - as it's more ...
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Magnesium – Everything You Need To Know
Magnesium - it's the micronutrient that everyone seems to be talking about lately
Chances are, somebody has told you that you might be deficient in it. Or that you need to take it to sleep well at night. Or you need it to maximize your recovery if you’re an athlete.
Everyone seems to have magnesium on the brain. And for good reason. This micronutrient is powerful and essential for our body to function properly.
The beauty of whole foods (that is - foods that come from the Earth and are consumed in their *mostly* natural state) is that they are loaded down with the macro- and micronutrients our body needs to operate.
But ...
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UPG Testimonials: Susan’s Story
It’s time for another installment of our testimonial series. A few months ago, we reached out to you guys to tell YOUR Paleo success story. We received more feedback that I ever expected, and it has been so fun reading each and every journey.
Over the course of the year, we’re going to share these with you. I hope you enjoying reading them as much as I do, and I hope you feel inspired and empowered to embark (or to continue) along your own path to ultimate health and well-being.
Read more testimonials here.
Today’s story comes from Susan. Susan was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of fifteen. For the past 50 ...
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Meet The Newest Member of Ultimate Paleo Guide – Chelsea Brinegar
Ultimate Paleo Guide is growing!
In order to bring you more content (and better) content than ever, we're adding to our team.
At UPG, our goal is simple, to bring you the best information on paleo living and research in order to answer your questions and make paleo easy for you and the ones you love.
That's why, today I'm excited to share our newest team member - Chelsea Brinegar. Over the last few months, I've loved getting to know Chelsea and I know you will too. Her insight, easy writing and well researched approach fit right at home with Ultimate Paleo Guide.
You'll be seeing regular blog posts from her, ...
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