The Caveman Diet Known as the Paleo Diet

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This may be one regimen that can truly benefit your brain. Technically, it's called a paleolithic diet, but what it basically means is letting go of all of the processed food and eating only what our ancestors would eat, if they were here today. Our ancestors ate a lot differently that we do today. They did not have access to rows and rows of boxed and canned goods sitting on store shelves or scientists in a lab making up new foods that taste like the picture on the box. Instead, they ate natural food, only food that grow. The diet of cavemen and cavewomen consisted of lots of meat, some fruit and root vegetables and little or no grains or dairy products.

The caveman diet almost resembles the familiar nutritionists' food pyramid. The big difference is the pyramid is turned completely upside down. So why should we adopt eating habits that contradict everything experts have been telling us, for decades? Why are so many people overweight? and sick? and in pain? The theory is simple: Just as a car is designed to run best on a specific fuel, so "our species is genetically adapted to eating animal protein and fats," insists Colorado State University's Loren Cordaine, Ph.D. And anthropologist Boyd Eaton, Ph.D., goes so far as to call modern America's high-grain, low-meat diet, "affluent malnutrition."

Ironically, the meat-rich diet our ancestors ate was in many ways more healthful than our own. Elk steaks have only a fraction of the cholesterol-raising saturated fat that farm-raised beef has. And the wild stuff has far more omega-3 fatty acids, the good fats that are essential to a well-functioning brain. In fact, Cordaine believes our ancestors' switch from a vegetarian diet to meatier meals rich in omega-3s was key to our evolution, providing the nutritients needed to expand the human brain.

Cordaines' work isn't just theoretical: He's actually put volunteers on a paleolithic regimen. The results? Despite all that meat, the types and levels of fat in participants' blood, over time, became healthier. Still not hankering for a buffalo burger? Cordaine says that the meat industry could easily raise cattle whose nutrient profile resembles that of wild game--if consumers demand it.

From: PsychologyToday.com


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