Embrace Your Inner Caveman With the Paleo Diet
1 Apr
From AnnArbor.com:
When you think of a caveman, do you summon up images of Fred Flintstone chewing on a leg bone? Maybe you picture long-haired, bearded insurance pitchmen? Think again. You might just have cavemen living in your neighborhood. Or at least someone who eats like one.
Designed by Colorado State University professor Loren Cardain, and based on his book “The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat,” the so-called Caveman (or Paleo) diet has been gaining traction among people who don’t consider themselves dieters. In fact, many would rather you not refer to the Paleo Diet as a diet at all – it’s a lifestyle.
A recent article in Canadian news magazine MacLean’s takes at look at the phenomenon. The idea behind the Paleo Diet is that our diet has evolved faster than we have as a species. Agriculture-derived foods are eschewed in favor of meats, seafood, vegetables, nuts and fruits – foods that our ancestors could have hunted and/or gathered.
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