What is the Difference Between the Paleo and Grain-Free Diet?

Do you feel like you lack energy and have some joint pain when exercising in the gym? 
Then you may want to consider implementing the grain-free diet, according to Jordan 
Brown, co-founder and chief executive officer of Hu Kitchen.

The Basics of the Grain-Free Diet

If you want to gain more energy yourself and try out the grain-free diet, you'll need to 
eliminate foods with wheat and gluten as well as gluten-free grains like rice, corn, oats, 
and barley.

However, some foods that technically don't qualify as grains including buckwheat, 
quinoa, and amaranth can be consumed in a grain-free diet but only in small quantities. 
It's important to remember that this diet does not discourage eating carbohydrates.

You can eat sweet potatoes, carrots, potatoes, and pumpkins in moderation. You also 
don't have to avoid eating foods such as meats, fish, legumes, eggs, nuts, and dairy. A 
similar nutrition plan to the grain-free diet is the Paleo diet. Below we will outline the 
Paleo diet along with the similarities and differences between it and grain-free foods.

The Basics of the Paleo Diet

The Paleo diet is a popular fad also known as the caveman diet. Essentially, it involves 
only eating foods that are thought to have been around during the Paleolithic era. This 
diet usually involves eating meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and roots. On this diet, 
however, you cannot consume dairy products, potatoes, grains, refined sugar, 
processed foods, legumes, salt, coffee, and processed vegetable oils.

If you're interested in trying the Paleo diet, be aware that there are some potential side 
effects including vitamin D and calcium deficiencies as well as possible weakness and 
headaches. Nonetheless, the Paleo diet is also believed to reduce the risk of heart 
disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic inflammation.

The Similarities of the Grain-Free and Paleo Diets

The main similarity between grain-free and paleo diets involve removing grains from the 
foods you consume every day. Essentially, both diets remove all gluten from your meal 
plans.

Since its focused on prehistoric food patterns, the Paleo diet may go even further by 
removing buckwheat, quinoa, and amaranth from your nutrition plan. While the grain-
free diet overlaps with the Paleo one, there are also key differences you should be 
aware of.

The Differences Between the Paleo and Grain-Free Diets

The biggest difference between these two diets is that you can eat sugars, dairy, 
potatoes, legumes, salt, coffee, vegetable oil, and even some processed foods when 
you're on the grain-free diet.

The Paleo diet is much more restrictive in what you can and cannot eat while the grain-
free diet mostly focuses on avoiding things like corn, rice, wheat, gluten, oats, and 
barley. Essentially, the Paleo diet differs because it focuses on what foods cavemen ate 
10,000 years ago.

We hope these descriptions and comparisons have given you a better idea of the type 
of diet that you'd like to try out.

