Version Française ICI: http://slidesha.re/17IjDVl Deutsch Version HIER: http://slidesha.re/1FKyWb7 Hunters and Gatherers. Back to the trees, back to the wood club? The trending Natural Health Movement and Paleo Diet promote a lifestyle which is based on the Stone Age people. When exercise and eating are in line with our genetic great-heritage, we feel more vital, healthier and are able to think more clearly, say the co-founders of the Paleo Movement Luxembourg Paul Merino and Melanie Lodevic. News Report by Kathrin Werno - Télécran Luxemburg - 8/2015 - 20150211 German to English Translation: CC-BY-NC-SA Paul Merino @SEUILS

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Back to the trees,
back to the wood
club? The trending
Natural Health
Movement and
Paleo Diet
promote a lifestyle
which is based on
the Stone Age people.
When exercise and
eating are in line
with our genetic
great-heritage,
we feel more vital,
healthier and are
able to think
more clearly,
say the co-founders
of the Paleo
Movement
Luxembourg,
Paul Merino and
Melanie Lodevic.
Paleo Movement Luxembourg
Stone Age
2.0
Some basic elements of Natural Movement are jumping, sprinting, climbing,
rolling, balancing, lifting branches or stones, and tree climbing - all best done barefoot.
An important focus is also placed on practicing movements in an effective and globally energy-efficient way.
Photo: cc-by-nc-sa Paul Merino @SEUILS
Photo: Shutterstock

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KATHRIN WERNO
telecran@telecran.lu
T
he modern Luxembourger Stone Age lifestyle began in
–Thailand. Paul Merino and Melanie Lodevic made
their way together through the jungle, climbing trees,
dragging stones while balancing on bridges made
of tree logs, wading barefoot through streams and chatting
around the Natural Movement campfires in Southeast Asia.
While the young Luxembourger follower of the trendy fitness
concept that turns people of the 21st century into Stone Age
hunters, also established the sport trend itself in the Grand
Duchy with her Bootcamp, she met again with the Frenchman
Paul Merino, a champion of the so-called Paleo Cuisine with his
multicultural @PaleoFast movement.
This diet is a building block of the new Stone Age lifestyle.
It derives its name from „Paleontology“ - the life science of past
geological eras - and is based on what was available to our
ancestors of the Stone Age to foster themselves.
Yesteryear our ancestors ate what they found or captured on the road
- they were hunters and gatherers. Accordingly, the Paleo diet is
based on the Paleolithic and mimics with contemporary food, what
the people of that time probably had available such as: meat,
fish, seafood, algae, eggs, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, tubers,
herbs and healthy fats such as coconut oil.
„Very much emphasis is also placed on the high quality and
sustainability of the food,“ says Paul Merino „so the meat comes
exclusively from locally caught wild fish, grazing or respectfully
pastured animals and eggs; similarly, vegetables and fruits of
organic or local quality are definitely preferable.“
Hunters and Gatherers
This is how the representatives of the „Stone Age cuisine“
believe it will provide us - we the people of the 21st century -
the best of care, because of the 2.5 million-year-long evolution
of our species which fit our organisms to these genuine staples.
Tabu to the Paleo followers however, are excluded all
industrially processed foods, sugar and artificial additives,
as well as all those foods that have landed only in the diets of
people when they settled about 10,000 years ago and began
to practice agriculture and animal husbandry.
Intensive cereals and products related to it, such as white bread,
noodles and other pasta, rice and legumes are therefore
minimized among the Stone Age followers, although they keep
mainly rice, pulses and a few remaining ancient grains (to bake
fermented sordough bread) as high-quality food.
Following the Paleo theory, they are more difficult to process
for our bodies because we genetically remained almost the same
as the Stone Age people.
The relatively short period from 20,000 to 10,000 years ago, in
which the people were no longer hunter-gatherers, would have
left only slight traces in our slow evolution.
Therefore, sources such as refined carbohydrates - especially in
the quantities in which they are consumed in industrialized
societies - are a major cause of many diseases of civilization.
Also, milk and milk products - with some notable exceptions, such
as raw or fermented products like Kefir - are part of the No-Go's.
Almost always going around barefoot, and wearing shorts;
climbing as if hunting, sprinting, jumping, crawling and
lifting stones and branches: the „inventor“ of the young Natural
Movement is the Frenchman Erwan Le Corre. Paul M erino
participated in trainings with him since 2008, when the
Natural Movement concept was still in its infancy.
„Not only I found it fun, my body deeply feeling air and earth,
but I also began to experiment with the appropriate diet“, says
one of the pioneers of this new, yet old lifestyle.
In 2010 he took part in the first official Natural Movement
camp in Thailand, where Merino and the Luxemburger Melanie
Lodevic got to know each other. „I felt even more comfortable
with this type of diet, and wanted to know more,“ she says.
In 2012, when the French Paleo expert was in business training
in Luxembourg, she invited him to organize a workshop for
family and friends.
Hollywood Dream
At about the same time, everywhere in the media we suddenly
heard of the „Paleo Diet“: the Stone Age lifestyle had reached
Hollywood.
Beauty, youth, health, success and, last but not least, better sex
- numerous stars like Megan Fox, Matthew McConaughey and
Gwyneth Paltrow are touting the benefits. Paul Merino holds
back from such promises as a dream factory. „A lot more energy
and mental clarity“ are the outstanding benefits of the Stone
Age lifestyle for the Nice-based consultant - who coincidentally
advises companies worldwide on reaching better organization,
effectiveness and problem solving.
Crosslinked Into the World
„We continuously give information to our body: about our food,
our movement - or lack thereof - stress, sleep, light and other
factors. This information is passed onto our DNA, so that our
body can adapt to the environment. When our DNA gets the
right incentives, it enables a greater vitality,“ he argues.
Through their relationship with him, his clients are directly or
indirectly exposed to his lifestyle, which has a positive effect on
everyone's work performance. In order to see as many people as
possible take advantage of this lifestyle, Merino and Lodevic
founded the Paleo Movement Luxembourg and held in November
Info
Paleo Luxembourg will hold
their next Workshops on March 28
for Stone Age nutrition skills,
and on March 29 for a training
in the Natural Movement style.
More information is available on
the Internet at Facebook under
„Paleo Lux“ and „Bootcamp
Luxembourg“ or by Email
at contact@paleolux.com.
last year, their first workshop. Although the lifestyle borrows
from the Stone Age, it is absolutely up to date: Modern cooking
techniques and utensils are used, and the exchange of recipes
and information is contemporary - Paleo Luxembourg works
closely with the corresponding movements in France, Belgium,
the UK, USA and Latin America.
Like any special diet, Paleo finds its friends and critics.
But as far as the quality and sustainability of the food are
concerned, there is now consensus among all „diet popes“.
And also regarding heavily processed foods, such as white
bread and refined sugar and oils, which almost every expert
of the diet would be keen to warn against.
To this respect, the „Paleo Nutrition“ wins many hearts
and minds. „Just try it,“ say Paul Merino and Melanie Lodevic.
Who sees the two of them cannot help but believe a little,
too, in the Hollywood miracle.
GERMAN TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION: cc-by-nc-sa Paul Merino @SEUILS
Nobody needs to refrain
on a steak in the Paleo diet,
but the quality of it should be
excellent: only meat from grazing
or respectfully pastured animals,
not grain-fed, corresponds
to the high standard
of the Stone Age cuisine.
Photo: Shutterstock
A glimpse into the training camp
in Thailand, this photo features
Melanie Lodevic (left) and
Paul Merino (right). They
enjoy a Paleo meal with
lots of local and seasonal
vegetables and fresh fruits.
Photo: cc-by-nc-sa Paul Merino @SEUILS