The Caveman Diet

Forget those faddish diets: the grapefruit diet, the South Beach diet, the cabbage soup diet, Posh Spice's latest starvation diet. There's only one diet real men need to worry about and that's the Paleo Diet - aka the Caveman Diet - which, in its most basic form, consists of what our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have eaten.

Who says so? Ray Mears. He's qualified to pronounce on such matters because he has spent more than a decade researching what our distant forebears used to survive on. He has also spent weeks in the wild with nothing more to eat than nuts, berries and lean meat. These, he believes, are the key to avoiding illness and premature death associated with our excessive western consumption of refined sugar and carbohydrate.

"Our ancestors were hunter-gatherers who ate a lot of meat and fish. They had a completely different diet from ours today, and if we were still eating that diet, I'm certain we wouldn't be getting as ill," says Mears. "We still have a Stone Age body. We have modern minds, but our brains and bodies still require the same food."

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[Badbone]

Cavemen also raped 13 year old girls, instituted slavery, and died at 30. Should we do all that too?

[wm1066]

There is evidence that Neolithic people MIGHT have enslaved Neanderthal people in the salt mines in Europe but where is your evidence that "Cavemen" raped 13 year old girls?

[Badbone]

Because they lived in a world were might made right. And a young girl has less might than an adult male.

[hypnotoad72]

Why not? Some politicians would vote for it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDUaYGOFso

[BlackWidowPilot]

Oh, you've nooo idea:

http://www.armchairsubversive.org

"Party of conservative Christian family values" only if one means the locals in THE HILLS HAVE EYES. Australopithicus would have balked at these characters...

Yeeach.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[thepoliticalcat]

I dispute his assertion that our paleolithic ancestors ate "a lot of meat and fish." As anyone who observes prey animals knows, the hunt is more often UNsuccesful. Moreover, only riparian and coastal dwellers had any access to fish and seafoods, except of the dried and salted kind (known as garum to the ancient Romans who used an infusion of it in place of salt). I suspect the paleolithic diet was proportionately higher in fruit, vegetables, the occasional lucky find of nuts, and very rarely, meat. They might well have eaten grain in the wild forms, which have proportionately fewer seeds. Job's Tears, for example, and similar seed-bearing plants are used by some tribes for food. The difference is, they ate such grains in something close to their natural state. Today, we engineer these types of plants to produce carbohydrate-rich grains, mill these grains finely, discarding the nutrient-rich husks, then mix them with fats and sugars to improve the taste. And we're simply amazed that, eaten in too great a quantity, they make us sick!

[wm1066]

Archaeologists in the 60's who were digging up Paleolithic and Neolithic graves found the Paleolithic, pre grain eatting people, usually had a lot of trama injuries but generally no diseases. The Neolithic bodies (lived in perminant houses and ate grains) had the first signs of diabetes and other diseases. They expected just the opposite, they thought the Neolithic bodies would be healthier.
But our ancestors before the Paleolithic period ate only raw foods and only alittle meat so should we go back to that diet? We have long past our paleolithic bodies and have reached a modern age body. we can't go back to a grainless diet. If we did would we get back the pronounced brow ridge and bigger teeth of the paleolithic people? But I do believe him about the refined sugar being bad. and I think the corn syrup that has taken over our diet has made alot of people fat, and sick.