Paleo What?

When eldest daughter (aka Career Girl/ Working Girl or whatever else I have called her!) was in 2nd grade, one of her vocabulary words was paleontologist.  I nearly swallowed my tongue!  Are you kidding me?  What's with the years and years of dinosaurs???  Every year...up until the time I decided to homeschool them, they learned something about dinosaurs.  Now don't get me wrong: I LOVE dinosaurs and ancient history and PRE-history but come on....let's spend more time on the basics!

Well guess what?  Those children have grown up and are researching and writing and you'll never guess what they are coming up with!  Dinosaurs again....and this time it is in the form of a diet.  YES....that four letter word we love to hate!  D-I-E-T.

College Girl (aka Rat Mom) announced she was on a Paleo Diet.

         A what?

         A diet designed by our blood types.

         Uh huh.

Ever the skeptic strawberry, I looked it up and damn if there isn't an actual diet.  I bet those researching doctors had "paleontologist" as a vocab word in second grade!

Here is a brief description of the diet.

• Breakthrough nutrition program based on eating the foods we were genetically designed to eat-lean meats and fish and other foods that made up the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors.

 a diet that emulates what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate — a high-protein, high-fruit and veggie diet with moderate amounts of fat, but with high quantities of healthful omega-3 and monounsaturated fats. Protein has two to three times the thermic effect of either fat or carbohydrate, meaning that it revs up your metabolism, speeding weight loss. Additionally, protein has a much greater satiety value than either fat or carbohydrate, so it puts the brakes on your appetite. Finally, three recent clinical trials have shown high-protein diets to be more effective than low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets in promoting weight loss.  (info "gathered" from the paleodiet.com)

Now you will notice that it doesn't say a word about blood types.  "The hunter-gatherer doesn't fall far from the top of the cave."  My dear child has added an extra bonus by combining another diet called "blood type diet."

This diet takes a look at your blood type and which foods you "can" eat to best match with your blood type.  Rat Mom is O negative (which these researchers say is the oldest blood type) so naturally she would want to be on a diet that our hunter-gatherer ancestors were on.  She chose the Paleo Diet because let's face it....that's pretty old!

My blood type is a "newer" variety so she exclaimed "Oh, you can eat everything."

Uh, Hello!  That is how I got in this shape in the first place!  No thank you!

We do have fun in the strawberry patch.  But all good things come to a close (for a while).

Please keep my little ones in your prayers as they head back to college today.  

I woke up at dark-thirty to make a care package (which I promised) for them.

Oh ding dong, the temptation of it all!

Did cave people have chocolate chip cookies?

I don't think cave people had chocolate chip cookies unless that sneaky dinosaur tried to steal one and got it in the head with a bat!  Maybe that's why the dinosaurs are extinct today.  Chocolate chip cookies war!

This is what my darlings promised to do last night!

Guess what is still in the sink this morning?!

I'll let it slide this once!  After all, I don't have them for much longer.  Do I really want to guilt them about the dishes when there will be something better at some future time????  LOL

Happy Paleo Thursday, Grainiacs.