Maire Brody discusses how a diet based on primal eating habits is still a healthy choice today.

1. PALEO DIET –
A CAVEMAN DIET FOR MODERN TIMES
By Maire Brody

2. PALEO DIET - A CAVEMAN DIET FOR MODERN TIMES
BY MAIRE BRODY
 Many people have heard of the paleo diet without really knowing what it is. Also called the
paleolithic, caveman or Stone Age diet, it is, as the names suggest, a way of eating based
on the lifestyle of our long-ago ancestors. More specifically, the paleo diet seeks to
recreate the eating habits of before the Agricultural Revolution, which was roughly 10,000
years ago.
 Of course, such a diet is inevitably doing to be inexact. If you think about it, you may
wonder if even the smartest scientists actually know with certainty what people ate that
long ago. There is some evidence, but also much speculation. For example, we know that
humans were mainly hunter-gatherers, but we don't always know precisely what they
hunted and gathered. Another problem is that humans have evolved in different ways
depending on their native climates and other factors. Paleolithic humans living near the
Arctic Circle would have eaten very different kinds of foods than those living in Hawaii.
 Despite these apparent difficulties, the paleo diet is still a surprisingly coherent and
sensible one. This is largely due to the fact that our modern, institutionalized food
production system has become so dependent on processed and artificial foods that simply
to return to a simpler time is automatically going to be a big improvement! In other words,
to return to the previous example, you'd do a lot better eating like a typical Eskimo or
Hawaiian native (or South American native, African, early European, etc.) than following
the typical modern junk food diet. So while experts may quibble about just what is and isn't
allowed in the paleo diet, if you would just try following the basic guidelines, you would be
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3.  What are the basics of the paleo diet? Essentially, eat natural meat, fish and eggs;
 dairy is more controversial, but a little organic dairy is fine. When it comes to animal
products, they should be organic or grass (not corn) fed. These animal products cover the
"hunter" part of the equation. For the "gatherer" half, we have nuts, fruits and vegetables.
Vegetables, however, do not include many relatively recent additions to the human diet,
such as potatoes. Refined sugar is also not allowed. Perhaps the most radical aspect of
this system is that it excludes all grains. This means no bread, pasta or rice, which are the
staples of so many modern diets.
 You may have noticed that the paleo diet does not conform to many modern ideas about
eating a low fat, even vegetarian diet. In this way it is more in line with the findings of
Weston Price, another controversial researcher who also studied many traditional people
and found that some of them are perfectly healthy while still eating high fat foods (though
natural, not the factory farmed kind we have in developed societies). In fact, many of these
"primitive" people have virtually none of the degenerative diseases, such as heart disease,
cancer and diabetes that plague so many societies today. While Weston Price's findings
are not exactly the same as the paleo diet, the two overlap in many areas.
 Many people like the idea of trying the paleo diet, but wonder what they are going to eat if
they can't have bread, sugar or pasta. It does require an open mind and a willingness to
try a new lifestyle. There are a couple of ways to approach this. You could try it for a month
and see how you feel. If you feel more energetic and maybe lose some weight, as many
people do, you might want to continue with it. 3

4.  There is something else to keep in mind with this or any diet: if you can stick to a good diet
75% or so of the time, you will gain most of the benefits that it has to offer. In other words,
if you adopt the paleo diet, you don't have to swear to never again eat a portion of french
toast, a slice of pizza or a bowl of your favorite pasta. The point is that you can use
something like the paleo diet as a guiding principle. Then again, if you are more of an "all
or nothing" type person, and find you really like it, then you can follow it 100% and gain all
of the benefits!
 The paleo diet is something that, once you seriously study it, makes intuitive sense.
 The fact is, despite the "advances" of modern life, many things such as food production
are designed to cheaply produce high volumes of products. In other words, the focus is on
quantity, not quality. Put still another way, if you eat like a normal modern person, you are
essentially eating an institutionalized diet. The paleo diet is one authentic way to choose
something better for you and your family.
 Learn how many delicious meals you can make with the paleo diet
[http://www.paleodiet.info/paleo-cookbooks]. Watch this short caveman diet video.
 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Maire_Brody
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