Have you ever heard about the Paleo Diet? I recently found about this diet and the idea is to eat like how our ancestors ate as cavemen, which includes eating fruits, veggies, meat, and nuts and to avoid processed foods like dairy and grains. You can find more information about this diet plan HERE!
For my own diet, I try to stick with fruits, vegetables, protein, whole grains, nuts and beans. While I don’t stick to the Paleo diet exactly, I do think it’s an interesting concept.
Another diet that is very popular these days is the Atkins Diet, which is basically a low-carb diet that particularly helped Kim Kardashian lose her baby weight. For more information about how Kim lost weight by using the Atkins diet, click HERE!
Do you follow any particular diet that works out well for you?
Paleontologist Dr. Alan Walker, of Johns Hopkins University, led a comprehensive study on the teeth markings on humanoid fossils. A NY Times article reported his conclusions: “Every tooth of the hominids of the 12 million year period leading up to Homo Erectus appeared to be that of a fruit eater.” So meat eating probably played a very small role in human development. The diets of our closest primate relatives of today may include small amounts of meat and insects, but they probably account for no more than 1-3% of calorie intake. In the last 75 years, animal product consumption in Western society has zoomed to unprecedented levels, and now provides about 30% of our calories. Which would seem to explain why nearly all Americans have cardiovascular disease. Carnivores and genuine omnivores can eat all the animal fat and cholesterol they want without requiring bypass surgery. Not so true for humans…
No matter what advancements we make in nutritional science, we will always have people who remain in the stone age