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What is the Paleo Diet?

The Paleo diet (abbreviation for Paleolithic diet) is a diet which is inspired by the manner in which our ancestors ate. More specifically, it is inspired by our ancestors from the Paleolithic age (approximately 2,600,000 to 10,000 years ago).

Scientific research shows that the human genome has only evolved 0.01% in the most recent 10,000 years. Our eating habits have however changed multiple times, now including many products that our 99.99% still Paleolithic genetic build-up was never supposed to eat! The basic assumption of the Paleo diet is that the by eating the foods that our body is supposed to eat, healthyness and quality of life increases.

Research shows that 70% of the average caloric intake of an American family is from products that were never around for our Paleolithic ancestors.

In a nutshell: we are eating the wrong foods and we suffering the consequence. Obesity, lack of energy and many other diseases of our time are a likely result.

It makes sense that in order to have an optimal diet, the foods must be optimally suited to our genetically determined needs.

An example of how people on paleolithic foods thrive can be seen from numerous encounters between western settlers and native peoples who still eat according to diets very similar to the diet of our ancestors. Here is an example from Captain Cook’s encounter with the Maori: