Paleolitska prehrana

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Language:	Slovenian
Year of publishing:	2014
Source:	Ljubljana
Typology:	2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
Organization:	UL PEF - Faculty of Education
Publisher:	[K. Malus]
UDC:	612.39:903(043.2)
COBISS:	10037833
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Secondary language:	English
Secondary title:	Paleolithic diet
Secondary abstract:	The paleolithic diet is a diet which imitates the nutrition eaten by various species of hominoids living in the paleolithic era by using foodstuffs available today. The objectives of our thesis were to research the nutrition of human ancestors, to describe a modern paleolithic diet and compare it to healthy dietary guidelines and present experience of individuals who were experimentally eating a paleolithic diet. The aim was to determine whether consuming a paleolithic diet could have beneficial effects on risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Our study included 9 volunteers who were consuming a paleolithic diet for 4-5 weeks. Their diet consisted of meat, vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, eggs, mushrooms and fats (lard, olive oil, coconut oil and others), whereas cereal grains, dairy products, legumes, refined fats and sugar were not allowed. The volunteers overcame anthropometric measurements before and after eating the paleolithic diet. We estimated the intensity of their physical workouts and the volunteers kept food diaries for a week, which have been entered into the OPKP computer program. We established that the intensity of the volunteers’ physical workouts did not change during the study, that a short-term consumption of a paleolithic diet has beneficial effects on the well-being of the volunteers and that all the volunteers lost body fat and (excluding one volunteer) body weight. Our findings show that the paleolithic diet has beneficial effects on risk factors for non-communicable diseases (body weight, body fat percentage), however, further studies on a larger number of volunteers with additional biochemical parameter measurements are necessary.
Secondary keywords:	nutrition;prehrana;
File type:	application/pdf
Type (COBISS):	Undergraduate thesis
Thesis comment:	Univ. Ljubljana, Pedagoška fak., Biotehniška fak., Biologija in gospodinjstvo
Pages:	X, 164 str.
Type (ePrints):	thesis
Title (ePrints):	Paleolitska prehrana
Keywords (ePrints):	paleolitska prehrana
Keywords (ePrints, secondary language):	paleolithic nutrition
Abstract (ePrints):	Paleolitska prehrana je način prehranjevanja, ki z uporabo živil, ki so nam danes na voljo, posnema prehrano, ki naj bi jo v obdobju paleolitika uživale različne vrste človečnjakov. Cilji diplomskega dela so bili raziskati prehrano človeških prednikov, predstaviti moderni paleolitski način prehranjevanja in ga primerjati s smernicami zdravega prehranjevanja ter predstaviti izkušnje posameznikov, ki so se poskusno prehranjevali na paleolitski način. Ugotavljali smo, ali uživanje paleolitske prehrane ugodno vpliva na dejavnike tveganja za pojav kroničnih nenalezljivih bolezni. V empirični del raziskave smo vključili 9 prostovoljcev, ki so se 4-5 tednov prehranjevali paleolitsko. Prostovoljci so uživali meso, zelenjavo, sadje, semena, oreščke, jajca, gobe ter maščobe (svinjska mast, oljčno in kokosovo olje idr.), niso pa uživali žit in žitnih izdelkov, mleka in mlečnih izdelkov, stročnic, sladkorjev in predelanih rastlinskih olj (sončnično, repično olje idr.). Na prostovoljcih so bile opravljene antropometrične meritve pred in po enomesečnem prehranjevanju na paleolitski način, ocenjena pa je bila tudi intenzivnost telesne aktivnosti v času trajanja raziskave. Prostovoljci so en teden vodili prehranski dnevnik, ki je bil analiziran s programom OPKP. Ugotovili smo, da se intenzivnost telesne aktivnosti udeležencev med raziskavo ni spremenila. Kratkotrajno uživanje paleolitske prehrane je imelo pozitivne učinke na počutje posameznikov, vsem prostovoljcem se je znižal delež telesne maščobe, z izjemo enega pa se je vsem zmanjšala tudi telesna masa. Na podlagi rezultatov smo zaključili, da je paleolitski način prehranjevanja ugodno vplival na dejavnike tveganja za pojav kroničnih nenalezljivih bolezni (telesna masa, odstotek telesne maščobe), vendar bi bilo naše ugotovitve potrebno potrditi na večjem številu prostovoljcev z dodatnimi meritvami biokemijskih parametrov.
Abstract (ePrints, secondary language):	The paleolithic diet is a diet which imitates the nutrition eaten by various species of hominoids living in the paleolithic era by using foodstuffs available today. The objectives of our thesis were to research the nutrition of human ancestors, to describe a modern paleolithic diet and compare it to healthy dietary guidelines and present experience of individuals who were experimentally eating a paleolithic diet. The aim was to determine whether consuming a paleolithic diet could have beneficial effects on risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Our study included 9 volunteers who were consuming a paleolithic diet for 4-5 weeks. Their diet consisted of meat, vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, eggs, mushrooms and fats (lard, olive oil, coconut oil and others), whereas cereal grains, dairy products, legumes, refined fats and sugar were not allowed. The volunteers overcame anthropometric measurements before and after eating the paleolithic diet. We estimated the intensity of their physical workouts and the volunteers kept food diaries for a week, which have been entered into the OPKP computer program. We established that the intensity of the volunteers’ physical workouts did not change during the study, that a short-term consumption of a paleolithic diet has beneficial effects on the well-being of the volunteers and that all the volunteers lost body fat and (excluding one volunteer) body weight. Our findings show that the paleolithic diet has beneficial effects on risk factors for non-communicable diseases (body weight, body fat percentage), however, further studies on a larger number of volunteers with additional biochemical parameter measurements are necessary.
Keywords (ePrints, secondary language):	paleolithic nutrition
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