"Paleo-Diet" Trashed!

[Jackalope]

A diet based on eating only foods that were available to cavemen, essentially. Lots of meat, veg, and nothing processed. There's limitations on grains, since they weren't around back then.

Gonna be hard finding veggies that were available to "cavemen". Meat too, really. Amusingly, of the three things offered - grains are probably one of the first things available to "cavemen".

I looked into this a while back and it appeared to me that the emphasis was on eating types of foods that would be available to paleolithic man, and highly shunning processed foods.

Lean meats, legumes, greens, nuts - that sort of thing.

Obviously, no one adhering to this diet is running around nomming on mammoth steaks. Likewise, millennia of agriculture and animal husbandry have rendered much of what we eat unrecognizable to Og and his merry clan of hunter-gatherers.

As one person explained to me: the modern diet of highly processed foods is something our species has not had time to adjust/evolve to. Whether or not there's anything to that hypothesis, I couldn't say. Whether there's any health benefits to the paleo diet, I also could not say.

Myself, I am trying to stick to preparing meals using fresh ingredients and avoiding processed / prepared foods where possible (as well as eating at restaurants who do the same). Occasionally, I even succeed at doing so. I couldn't say if there's health benefits to that either, but the food does taste better to me.

There's a restaurant nearby that has a "paleo-friendly" menu - and I eat there occasionally not because I think there's anything to the fad, but because they serve tasty foods - such as game meats - that aren't commonly found.