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.
PRO
- Ideal for serious carnivores
CON
- Eliminates entire groups of food
DIET and NUTRITION
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. Consider that cavemen were very mobile, active people.
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, Paleo Diet
Related Diets: Makers Diet, Low-Carb Diet
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Still on the diet Total lost in 10 weeks 40 lbs. I cheat on Sundays
Lack of antibiotics, large carnivorous wild animals, and constant warfare is the reason Paleolithic people only lived to be 30. I certainly wouldn't attribute their life expectancy to their diet (unlike now).
44 yr old male been on the diet for about 4 weeks lost 20 lbs I feel great.The diet is very easy. I eat chicken and fish tons of fruits and veggies.
Sept 2008: 14 st 8 lbs. Removed big carbs like bread, potato, rice, root vegetables, ALCOHOL, don't have a sweet tooth so don't care about sugar.
Feb 2009: 11 st 6 lls.
Age: 39
Height: 5'11"
Gender: Male
This is a great lifestyle choice and easy to follow. I eat greek yoghurt and a big handful of seeds for brekka. Meat and veg or salad for lunch and then have fish, meat or cheese and tomatoes or cucumber or celery for supper. If I get peckish I have cheese and celery and have recently got into berries and double cream!
Went for a meal with my wife and really fancied a pud.........so happily had one! It's not a 'diet' and it's not restrictive or guilt inducing. It's just sensible.
The greatest expense is the cost of the closthes that I have had to buy after going from a 38" waist to under 32".
Go for it!
I've already lost six pounds and I've been on this diet since friday the 23rd. I find myself feeling a lot better and healthier and i feel better about myself with the choices of what i eat, yes it's hard to limit myself so much to such little food, but in the end my lifestyle will be that much better.
In just the first week I've already lost six pounds. My doctor put me on this diet for headache problems and it is really helping.
I don't think this sounds like the atkins diet. It's of promise and I'm going to give it a go if only to purify my over-saturated christmas body!!! Can anyone out there remind of me of why caveman only lived until their mid-30's though? I'm in my mid-30's and wouldn't want to rush into anything terminal just yet! Cheers
A common myth about the Caveman Diet is the notion that it's designed for weight loss.. it's not!
The caveman diet is about detoxifying you body, and getting into gear with your body's natural rhythms, and much more... I urge you to analyse it properly. Here is a good place to start; http://www.cavemanpower.com/
I tried this diet, but I'm not the type who needs to lose much weight so the results were'nt extraordinary. At least they werent bad. Of course, I have had experience with the Atkins diet...but when I tried this one I found I was hungry most of the time. And it was expensive. But if I had more money for rich meats, more nuts ect., I probably would not have been that hungry. All in all its a good plan healthy and yummy (for my tastes anyway) but one thing I really missed was cheese and dairy.
I found the choices here way too limiting and definitely couldn't see how eating these types of foods would help drop the weight. I'm trying to drop at least 40 pounds and after trying the food choices here I'm gonna give another diet a try.
Now this is what I call a diet. Give me T-bone steak and lets call it a day.
This diet focuses way too much on eating meat and very highly saturated foods, which isnot going to get me shedding pounds.
What was a caveman's life expectancy???
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.
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!
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!
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.
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