Why the Paleolithic Diet is the Only True Diet

Excitement over the paleo diet has recently swept across the nation. The paleo diet, short for Paleolithic Diet, is eating only what cavemen would have eaten. It is eating only lean meats, fruits, vegetables, and nuts, with some surprising exceptions.



Going on the Paleolithic Diet doesn't make mean you believe in evolution, but the ideas behind the diet depend on evidence that our cavemen ancestors have been around for 2.5 million years.



It wasn't until 10,000 years ago that we as humans began farming. Before then, and for 2,500,000 years prior, we ate what we could hunt and gather. So, we have 250 times as much history with the hunter-gatherer diet and our genes haven't changed in the last 50,000 years.



So, what does this mean? Our bodies are designed to eat lean meats, fruits, vegetables, and nuts. We are not designed to eat cow's milk, cheese, cereal grains, or beans, to for starters.



Eating the Paleolithic Diet has been gaining scientific community support as well. Using the Paleolithic Diet as a template and proving out theories with studies, we are finding that the Paleolithic Diet is causing people to slim down to their "optimal" weight without being hungry. We're finding that conditions like insulin resistance, heart disease, and cancers apparently being reduced.



There are many diets that come close to the Paleolithic Diet. Many of the high-protein diets are popular because people find that they do really make you lose weight. The Paleolithic Diet is higher in protein than the average American's diet, but it also requires fruits, vegetables, and nuts be eaten while completely avoiding simple sugars, bread, and cheese.



Does anyone really believe that eating refined sugars, cereal grains, and fatty sausages is good for you? How about all the new chemicals and artificial sweeteners we've come up with in the last few years. How long does it take for them to prove bad for us? Stick to the Paleolithic Diet, nature's diet, and you won't have to be the guinea pig for these things.



So, when you plan to start a diet, think about what your body will do best with...foods we have invented and overeaten recently, or foods our cavemen ancestors instinctively ate. Further, since no one really knows precisely what our caveman friends ate everyday, pay attention to current research on Paleolithic-based diets.



With 65% of Americans overweight or obese now, it's time we throw away all the fad diets that obviously aren't working, and return to the all-natural Paleolithic Diet we succeeded with for thousands of years.



Author is a contributing researcher on http://neo-paleolithic-diet.com.