Paleo Diet
METABOLIC TYPE V – PALEO DIET
(EXCELLENT METABOLIZER)
Characteristics
Metabolic Type V people can tolerate a wide variety of foods. They are prone to hypoglycemia, so they must stay away from a lot of simple sugars (junk foods) like soda, alcohol (hard liquor), fruit juices, and candy. Metabolic Type V people derive their energy more from fat than from carbohydrates.
This type does well with a lot of red meat (beef, veal, pork, wild game, and lamb) eaten several times a week. It is a true meat-and-potatoes man/woman.
As far as seafood is concerned, they typically like oily seafood (cold-water fish, high omega oils) such as salmon, tuna, sardines, mackerel, and shellfish with butter. In fact, they like their seafood fried.
This Metabolic Type
- Burns sugar (carbohydrates) rapidly and inefficiently, causing your blood sugar to rise and fall rapidly, giving you spikes of energy followed by bouts of fatigue. You do well with most carbohydrates including carbohydrates that have a mid-range (50–80) glycemic index.
- Can eat cooked and raw vegetables and fruits. Your diet should be rich in fresh cooked and uncooked vegetables and fruits (as desserts), making up between 40–50% of your meal.
- 50–60% of your foods should be derived from the Acid Forming Foods Chart and 40–50% from the Alkaline Forming Foods Chart (see About Your Blood Test manual). Use red meats, fowl (dark meat and skin) and oily fish as your primary sources of protein. Use eggs, cheeses, nuts, seeds, and beans as your secondary sources of protein.
- Stress the following foods in your diet (A–G), because they all contain protein, fat and fat-soluble vitamins (D, E, K, A):
