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A recent diet trend is eating paleo. Robb Wolfe, author of The Paleo Solution says, "the paleo diet is the healthiest way you can eat because it is the only nutritional approach that works with your genetics to help you stay lean, strong, and energetic."
There are a number of ways to benefit from a paleo diet including improved sleep, balanced energy throughout the day, improved blood lipids, reduced inflammation, and burning excess fat. But to be effective, the paleo diet needs to be a lifestyle that includes choosing to eat nutrientdense, whole foods that will help your body achieve optimal health.
The paleo diet first gained serious acceptance in the scientific world due in part to a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985 by Stanley Boyd Eaton, MD, titled "Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of its Nature and Current Implications." In this paper, Boyd points out that a diet based on meat and foraged fruit and vegetables is more suitable for our bodies. These foods are easily digested. He claimed that many chronic health issues are related to the food we eat and the toxins they contain.
He affirmed that our bodies have not significantly evolved since our Paleolithic ancestors hunted and gathered food, and thus our bodies are not designed to deal with the external stress from the additives in processed food. These hunter gatherers walked the earth 10,000 years ago. Their diets consisted of hunted meat, speared fish, and fruits and nuts they found growing in the wild, supplemented by limited tubers they harvested. They also consumed animal organs and carcasses-not just the meat. Since domestication of agriculture was not yet developed, they did not consume any dairy or grains.
Proponents of the paleo diet believe that many Western diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis are a result of the additives in our...