About The Paleo Diet

The Paleo Diet is also known as the paleolithic diet, the caveman diet or the hunter/gatherer diet.

It refers to the diet that was eaten by our pre-civilized ancestors. They didn't eat potatoes, grains, beans or any artificial foods. They ate what they could hunt, what they could grow and what they could forage.

After 200,000 years of evolution man's body was accustomed to the Paleo Diet which involves the consumption of :

• Meat
• Fish
• Poultry
• Eggs
• Vegetables
• Fruits
• nuts
• shoots
• seeds

When civilization and the neolithic era began we started eating high carbohydrate foods like grains, potatoes, legumes, sugar and rice. These foods were never staples of the tribal diet because they are inedible in their raw state. It is only by cooking them that humans can eat them without becoming ill.

These foods are energy dense but extremely low in crucial vitamins and minerals. They are also much harder for our bodies to break down and digest.

10,000 years of civilization has not been enough to alter what 200,000 years of evolution created our bodies to be. From a physiological perspective we are still that same species. We function the best when we eat animal products and fresh produce.

The 20th century has amplified the worst parts of our new diet. Not only do we eat high carb staples but we now eat a large amount of processed and chemically enhanced food.

This food gives us calories for energy, but it lacks the necessary micronutrients for optimum health. Instead people take supplements. But you don't need supplements when you are eating the right foods.

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