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Weight Automatically Goes To What You Were Meant For, No Hasssle Harlan Jacobsen. Copyright © 2008
The Caveman diet, also popularly known as the Paleo diet, Paleolithic, Stone Age diet and Hunter-Gatherer diet, is not really a traditional diet at all but is more of a menu and regimen which seeks to mimic the diet and food input of our ancestors who for two and a half million years ate wild plants and animals. Humans habitually consumed only this type of natural food during the Caveman or Paleolithic, a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture. Argicuture introduced a new menu of foods that man to this day has not adopted to since it is thought it takes 50,000 generations to fully adopt.Based upon commonly available modern foods, the Caveman or Paleolithic diet consists mainly of lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots and nuts, and excludes todays:
Non-of the studies have shown any basis for critics of this diet claiming it poses "health" risks.The principles of the evolutionary caveman menu, is that it is based on the premise that modern humans are genetically adapted to the diet of their Caveman or Paleolithic ancestors and that human genetics have scarcely changed in the last 10,000 years since the dawn of agriculture. Therefore, this is an ideal diet for human health and well-being and is one that most closely resembles this ancestral menu of foods that your body was designed to handle. This dietary approach is a controversial topic amongst nutritionists.Advocates argue that modern human populations subsisting on traditional diets similar to those of this Caveman or Paleolithic hunter-gatherers menu of foods are largely free of diseases of affluence, and that such diets produce beneficial health outcomes in controlled medical studies. Supporters point at continued mounting evidence that there are therapeutic nutritional characteristics with these "pre-agricultural" diets.It should be pointed out that "agriculture" was the big jump that modern man has not adjusted to, and now a far bigger jump in the last two hundred years, that includes the addition of refined sugar, steel milled flour, and man made and altered fats and oils and chemical based man made substances, all of which do not exist in nature. The processing of food and adding chemicals and substances to enhance its marketability are expanding rapidly the bodies inability to handle the quantity of these foreign substances.It is this last jump that means man is now eating over 60% foods (and drinks) his body has not adopted to. It is your body response to many of these substances considered "foreign" that results in the body immune system attempts to remove them with internal almost totally silent attacks that are referred to as "inflammation". It is these body survival system silent immune system attacks attempting to rid these unknown and unprogrammed for substances. This is the root cause of an estimated 90% of American health problems and premature deaths. (degenerative diseses etc.) Usually unrecognized as the source of the problem and aggressive use of additional man made chemicals (drugs) to attempt to force the body to adopt add man new even more serious problems.Therefore, advocates and those actually fully using the caveman "accepted" menu find that physical problems such as stiffening joints and aches and pains they never set out to fix, clear up in a matter of week as a surprise benefit. Those following the menu (basically a list of what was on ancestors menu you can eat) and a menu of modern foods to avoid totally. seem to lose all excess weight within a year and stay at a set point no matter how much they eat. One of the big advantages over other diets is there is no bookkeeping, you eat all you want whenever you want and as often as you want.Therefore, once on to the menu, it is relatively easy to follow providing you establish sources and stock of appropriate food. Off site article on Caveman Diet Recent Study. go here
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