This Diet Is So Easy, Even You Can Do It

Have you ever heard of an overweight caveman?

Exactly.

I first wanted to put together a post about healthy snacking after looking at a Good Housekeeping The Best 100 Calorie Snacks article. Within this very popular magazine article you will find many apparent good ideas for eating healthy. But a closer inspection left me feeling disgusted at the recommendations. So I changed my focus to something that I am doing.

The Paleolithic, or Cavemen, diet.

Besides Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, most portrayals of the people who lived 12,000 years ago depict slender folks baring rock-hard abs. What's their secret? Surely it's great exercise to be out chasing woolly mammoths and foraging for berries all day. And it helped that there were no Fruity Pebbles or venti white chocolate mocha's hundreds of generations ago. The Washington Post.

There is a scientific premise to all of this; our dietary needs were formed 500 generations ago and are nearly identical to those of Stone Agers. This was first proposed in the 1980s, but popularized with 2002's "The Paleo Diet," by Loren Cordain, a professor at Colorado State University.

Calories are important when eating, but what is more important is what makes up those calories. You can read more about the importance of the source of the calorie on this informative blog, The Fit Dad Says.

But, seriously, what if we ate like our Paleolithic ancestors? That would be lots of lean meats, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables; no grains, salt, sugar, legumes or dairy products. Some people do, and it's called the Paleo diet -- short for Paleolithic, which refers to the era before agriculture took hold, a movement away from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle that resulted in settled societies, and, eventually, Twinkies and couch potatoes.

If you'd like to learn more about what the Paleolithic diet is all about follow these links below

The Paleo Diet
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The combination of Chiropractic and these eating principles will reward your body, and your body will reward you!