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People are recently getting into the health and wellness revolution because of the problems of modern diseases. Yes, the modern world is full of medicine and hospitals and information, but the main problem is not addressed. This is in direct contrast with the Paleolithic people who did not have the technology, knowledge, or even the experts and yet they were mostly safe from modern diseases such as osteoporosis and obesity. The difference was Paleolithic nutrition.
Paleolithic Times
The ancient cavemen did not have the easy going way of life we have come all too comfortable with. They had to toil every day looking for a peaceful herd of herbivores and hope that no nasty carnivores got to them first. For millions of years, the human body evolved its system to accept these kinds of foods and they didn't have the chance to plant and grow grains until around ten thousand years ago.
As a result, they were healthier and the modern human less so, because modern man is eating foods that have only recently been developed, and the body is still struggling to assimilate these foods. This is why many modern people are starting to adopt a Paleo diet.
Stone Age Food
If you are what you eat, then it speaks a lot about the difference between the foods eaten by cavemen and modern people. Most people do not take heed of what they eat? Many people do not even think about what they are eating every day, let alone throughout their lifetime. If you are like most people, you are used to eating fast food meals, noodles, junk foods, and drinking instant coffees. There's a remarkable trend going on today that tries to "instant" everything!
You might be familiar with bread, rice and pasta because they are available everywhere you look and you might not even survive a day without consuming some form of sugar. These processed foods are the most common types of food for modern people and the result is obvious.
Stone Age people, on the other hand, noticeably lacked these items and when it came to preservatives and processed foods. The result is that they were healthier because they were eating foods that are already familiar to the body. This includes fruits, vegetables, eggs, lean meat, fish, almonds, walnuts, but not peanuts which are not really nuts but legumes.
The Paleo Diet
When you say "diet," many people will imagine not eating for most of the day. This is what normally turns people away from any regular diet. They cannot bear the idea of going about their day hungry. Not only are they cutting calories but some diets ask you to count calories as well making you stick to some insane number that you can't go over at the end of the day! Doesn't this seem like torture? Many people do.
This is how Paleolithic nutrition differs from most of the available diet programs. You can eat as much as you need and you will not be made to feel guilty. After all, the cavemen didn't have such measures to make sure they didn't gain weight and yet they were quite lean and healthy.
A Paleo diet may be what you need if you find it difficult to stick to your own diet program. Many diet experts already attest to the effectiveness of this lifestyle change. Try it for a few weeks and see the almost unbelievable results of the Stone Age diet, as many people already have.
