The Paleolithic Diet - What You Want To Know
The Paleolithic diet is a diet you may have heard about. It is a diet that is based around consuming the same types of foods that our prehistoric ancestors ate. What did prehistoric people eat? They hunted all of their food as well as gathered them. They hunted all of their animals, grew their own fruits and vegetables, and everything else.
What About Today?
Today, we eat the same foods as before, but we also eat a lot of new types of foods that our ancestors never ate. We eat very starchy foods like pasta and rice, as well as candy and other foods filled with sugar.
What happened was, about ten thousand years ago, we went through something called the agricultural revolution. What happened was we started to mass produce all types of foods. These foods are genetically different than the usual foods we were accustomed to and many nutritionists believe that this is the leading cause of diseases we see today. Diseases such as obesity, high blood pressure, and cancer.
So Why Choose The Paleo Way?
So why was eating a paleolithic diet better than the foods now? It's very simple. We survived millions of years eating natural organic food. Our bodies have become accustomed to these types of foods. Our bodies have not been able to cope with these new types of food as well. It's evident because we see all these types of new diseases that never existed in the millions of years of humans roaming the earth. And nothing has really changed that much with our genes. We are genetically very close to our paleolithic ancestors. But the food we consume has changed dramatically. Again, many nutritionists believe this is the leading cause of unhealthy people.
A paleo diet means you will only consume foods we used to eat before the agricultural revolution. One big thing that didn't exist before was carbohydrates. Only naturally occurring carbs in things like fruits and vegetables are fine to eat. But bread, pasta, wheats, sugars, etc. These you will have to stop eating. You can decide the degree of paleo you want to pursue.
How Can I start The Paleolithic Diet?
If you are starting out, it's not hard! just slowly start moving away from eating "conventional" foods and you will eventually find you don't even crave the candy or pizzas anymore. You should also find you feel more energetic and feel more lively. Eating more healthy has so many benefits as you probably know.
You will need to find a list of paleo foods and maybe a recipe book to get you started. Good luck!
