Caveman Diet
If you thought you were old-fashioned, try this 40,000-year-old diet.
BACKGROUND
If you're still searching for a way to lose weight, then try the plan that's prehistoric. The Caveman Diet relies on a method that's roughly 40,000 years old - a healthy, simplistic approach to eating.
If it wasn't available to the cavemen, then it's probably not anything you need.
FOOD & RECIPES
The cavemen didn't have manufactured foods packed with preservatives and fillers. They ate their food the way they found it in nature. The Caveman Diet removes carbs like bread and potatoes, beans, sugars and sodium. You'll enjoy meals rich in protein and light on carbohydrates when you incorporate fish, chicken, meat, root veggies like parsnips and carrots, eggs and of course nuts and berries.
This plan will actually invert the traditional food pyramid: 35 percent of your diet should be plants and 65 percent should be animal. Remove over-processed foods and lessen your chance to develop obesity and related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes.
EXERCISE
Plan says that exercise is every bit as important as the diet.
EXPENSE
There are several “paleo” diet books to choose from, one being The Paleolithic Prescription: A Program of Diet and Exercise and a Design for Living.
PRO
- Meat lovers are happy campers.
CON
- Eliminates food groups totally
CONCLUSION
Going back to our seems not only like a plausible idea, but logical. Modern life has created scenarios that are contrary to our natural physical needs. While it’s not necessary to totally eliminate foods like beans and potatoes, if you concentrate on the basic recommendations, you will probably happy and healthy.
Common misspellings: Cavman diet, Caveman deit, Caveman plan
Katiebow: Hmm Cave man diet sounds like the first Atkins diet.lol If the Cave Man had a legal team he would have a great case!
Yankee in London: It is fascinating how much seems to be known about what the cave men (and women) of 40,000 years ago had to eat. Also very intriguing to think that we might want to model our diets on a people with no scientific knowledge of nutrition, and who just MIGHT have been less healthy than modern man - and not all down to the fact that sabre-toot tigers were picking them off whenever possible. But why go back to cave men? We could model our diets on primitive tribes in Africa or Indonesia - unless more direct knowledge of their diet deficiencies might ruin the romantic notion of the noble, well-nourished savage.
Meg: I've been on the caveman diet for about 8 months now and have lost over 50 pounds, yeah it sounds like the atkins but its TONS better and healtier! I live on Fruits and Veggies! YUMMY!
Allison: To Yankee: studies show people 40,000 years ago were extremely healthy and strong with great bone density, no obesity, etc. the first signs of obesity and low bone density came with agriculture. our bodies weren't (apparently) evolved for processed foods. modern people (in certain countries) are far from healthy in caveman terms, with the wonderful exception of certain cultures with great food habits.
Ausie gal: What was a caveman's life expectancy???
