PDF Ebook The Paleolithic Diet
The Paleolithic Diet is a controversial topic amongst nutritionists. This report explores the origins of this diet, contends that the modern western diet is discordant with our genetic inheritance and that such evolutionary discordance has enormous ramifications on fitness and survival (physical and mental health) and outlines the advantages and disadvantages of eating like a caveman in the 1st Century.
The 'Paleolithic Era' or 'the Stone Age' commenced well before modern people emerged from Africa and spread through Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas (a migration that is thought to have begun about 130,000 years ago). It ended with the adoption of agriculture and the construction of the first cities about 10,000 years ago. During the Paleolithic Era rapid evolution of the human species was taking place. By about 40,000 years ago, our remote ancestors were virtually genetically identical to modern people and the human genome has changed little since then (0.005%).
The word diet has its origins from the Greek word "diaita", which means way of life. During the Paleolithic Era, all people were hunter-gatherers and lived on game animals, seafood, vegetables, fruits, nuts, tubers). There were no crops of cereal foods such as rice and wheat, staples in most societies today and no-one ate milk products or drank milk after weaning. Potatoes, salt, yeast, legumes, caffeine, processed food and alcohol were also notably absent.
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PDF Ebook The Paleolithic Diet
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