Mankind has lived off a hunter gatherer diet, for hundreds of thousands of years. You call this diet the caveman diet. Other names for this include the paleo diet or Stone Age diet. The paleo caveman diet involves modifying your diet and lifestyle to that of your hunter gatherer ancestors. This means making changes not only to your diet but also to your exercise sleep and stress levels.
Advocates of the caveman diet strongly believe that a number of health problems experienced by modern humans are as a direct result of our excessive consumption of simple sugars, refined wheat and processed foods. These disorders include diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and arthritis to name just a few.
The paleolithic diet is full of tasty satisfying foods and those who choose to try it experience weight loss, improved energy levels and overall good health. It also means avoiding refined sugars and wheat products wherever possible.
Due to the advent of farming and refining of food, the nature of your diet has changed considerably. From an evolutionary point of view, you would expect to adapt to tolerate and thrive on foods which are readily available from the immediate surroundings.
Your bodies have developed in an environment where the foods available to you included what you could pull out of the ground or off a tree or what you could hunt, cook and eat or fish from the local waterways. You need to adopt your modern diet of refined wheat, low fat, high carbohydrate and processed foods is a major cause of obesity, ill health, diabetes and many inflammatory diseases.
There is increasing evidence that switching to a diet that mimics that of your caveman ancestors will help a person to lose weight, improve fitness and avoid many chronic diseases.
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