Everyday Paleo Diet Good For Your Ancestors, Good For You






by Ben Smith


There has been a lot of buzz about the Paleolithic diet in both the weight-loss industry as well as the health professions. The everyday Paleo diet has, like all diets, controversial aspects. Nevertheless, it has its adherents and the plan itself has much going for it.

If this is all new to you, the basic premise is that if you eat what the cavemen and women ate, you will not only lose weight, you will free yourself of all the ailments and diseases common to our age. By sticking to foods nature creates, eschewing all the over-processed foods made in factories, dairies and bakeries, your health and well-being will greatly increase.

The Paleolithics, our foraging ancestors, ate meat, seafood, fruits, vegetables and nuts. They most certainly did not consume dairy products, refined sugars, grains and oils. This diet is packed with vitamins and minerals.

To follow this diet, plenty of foods must be eliminated from your kitchen. Banish all junk food, say farewell to the dairy aisle, forget about anything packaged for freshness and do away with sweets completely except for a little honey. Flavor your meat and veggies with spices or herbs and regain your sense of taste. For your daily intake, eat 55-65 percent animal food, 36-45 percent plants foods. Eschew all else. If this plan seems radical to you, it is not so different from the low-carb diets, or even the sophisticated Mediterranean Diet. It has much in common with the raw food movement.

The diet proclaims to increase energy, promote sleep, help with moods and increase mental dexterity. It promises to rid you of joint pain, sinus problems and almost all forms of body aches. It promises to cure or at least prevent basically all modern afflictions.

Practicing the everyday Paleo diet should also cut your food expenses. Organic foods are recommended and they can be more pricey but the money you save skipping the bakery, dairy aisle, wine section (no wine or alcohol at all), and all those convenience foods should have your budget in good shape. Health, wealth and stealth all in one diet plan. The Flintstones themselves vouch for it.




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