The paleo diet is of course the only way to live your life in a healthy and energetic manner. If you are always tired, lack energy to do the activities that you want to do, get sick all the time, or maybe just don't feel like your age, then possibly the paleo diet could completely change your life for the better.
The best part of the paleo diet is that you never have to count the number of calories that you eat. You just eat the right foods, the ones that nature has intended you to eat until you are full. Simple, easy and delicious!
Now I am going to tell you what the paleo diet is all about and how it makes complete logical sense.
For over a million years humans were hunter gatherers. There is no doubt about that, as history tells us. The foods that were eaten by our hunter gatherer ancestors consisted of a lot of meat, fish and berries, vegetables and fruits. There were no such things as grains. Over this million or so years our bodies evolved to get used to these foods that were consumed.
Then just over 500 generations ago, or 10,000 years back someone came up with the silly idea of creating the agricultural life. However our bodies are not adapted for the foods that agriculture provides. Genetically we have only changed 0.01% but our diets have changed much more rapidly.
Since the change of diet, the health of man has slowly declined as proven by archeological studies.
Our hunter gatherer ancestors were much taller and stronger than the early farmers. They had stronger bones, less cavities and lived much longer without modern day diseases unless of course they were killed. It was hard to find an overweight hunter gatherer, it just wasn't possible if they wanted to survive. Auto immune diseases such as arthritis and diabetes were practically non existent.
Aside from the fact that agricultural revolution brought about a massive destruction in the environment, with the cutting down of forests to make way for land for crops etc. We started to consume foods that we were not genetically adapted to eating such as grains, corn, potatoes and beans. This resulted in a massive increase and spread of autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, allergies and constant lack of energy.
People and communities around the world that are still eating in this natural way, as we are genetically adapted to eating have been seen to have a substantial improvement in health, a massive increase in energy and lean physiques to match.
