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INTRODUCTION TO THE PALEOLITHIC DIET Their secret is their diet- a diet that has changed little from that of the first humans 2 million years ago, and their predecessors up to 7 million years ago. The diet is usually referred to as the "Paleolithic Diet" referring to the Paleolithic or Stone Age era. There is now a realization that the low fat diet theory of the 90’s doesn’t often work (it has about a 6% success rate like most other diets) and that the vast majority of the Western population need to increase their omega 3 intake and decrease their omega 6 intake. www.earth360.com /diet_paleodiet_balzer.html   (3638 words)

Paleolithic Nutrition The Paleolithic lasted from about 200 000 years ago to about 12 000 years ago and was characterized by a hunting and gathering lifestyle for humans. Thus a diet of lean meat, fish, fruits and vegetables is now considered to represent a Paleolithic Diet and such a diet is basically that to which humans are genetically adapted. In the NA diet carbohydrates are derived mainly from grains and refined sugars with fruits and vegetables being a minor supply. www.direct-ms.org /paleolithic_nutrition.html   (1727 words)

Paleolithic diet - multiple sclerosis encyclopaedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) The Paleolithic diet is a dietary regime which some people believe to be effective in treating multiple sclerosis. By 1975, after several years on the diet, a neurologist pronounced his reflexes, muscle control, gait, and movements to be normal and could only detect a slight nystagmus in one eye. Essentially, their diet was pretty similar to that of modern day hunter-gatherers and did not include the products of agriculture such as cereal crops, dairy produce, high fat meat and refined sugar. www.mult-sclerosis.org /Paleolithicdiet.html   (1380 words)

Nutrition & Metabolism | Full text | A Paleolithic diet confers higher insulin sensitivity, lower C-reactive protein ... This Paleolithic diet has been suggested to be more in concordance with our evolutionary legacy than a diet based on products associated with agriculture during the Neolithic period (10,000 years BP – present time) such as cereals and milk [2,3]. A possible mechanism might be the potential of Paleolithic diet to reduce risk factors for diseases of affluence, such as disturbed glucose homeostasis, insulin resistance and hypertension [2]. A Paleolithic diet thus conferred higher insulin sensitivity, which is central to the prevention of cardiovascular disorders [23], and consistent with our finding in humans [24]. www.nutritionandmetabolism.com /content/3/1/39   (4838 words)

Paleolithic diet The Paleolithic diet is a dietary system which concerns itself primarily with health (as opposed to ethical or economic) issues. Advocates of paleolithic nutrition believe simply that the best food for the human body is that food which it was designed to eat, and that dietary related diseases are caused by straying from that path. Their argument goes that since human genetics have scarcely changed since the stone age an ideal (for health) diet would be a reconstructed stone age diet. www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/p/pa/paleolithic_diet.html   (320 words)

Paleolithic Diet There is one critical aspect of any diet that determines whether it is the healthiest form of eating - this is not merely in the selection of foods, but in the proportion of carbohydrate, protein and fat that is consumed. Therefore, the bulk of their diet was meat (protein and fat) with the carbohydrates of fruits and vegetables being a much smaller portion of each meal. A high carbohydrate diet with very low fat content (like some vegetarian diets) appears to be just as low-risk for heart disease as is a low carbohydrate, high fat diet. www.low-carb-diet-recipes.com /paleolithicdiet.htm   (619 words)

Paleolithic Nutrition: Your Future Is In Your Dietary Past Today's panoply of diets - from fast-food burgers to various concepts of balanced diets and food groups - bear little resemblance, superficially or in actual nutritional constituents, to the diet H. sapiens and its ancestors consumed over millions of years. Paleolithic diets provide provide those clues - and give us a sound foundation to build on, perhaps to protect and prime our genes even further. Regardless, the diet of today is very different from, and not always as good as, the diet of the past. www.thenutritionreporter.com /stone_age_diet.html   (2472 words)

Caveman Paleolithic Diet: Weight Loss Bible Diets that are devised today may rely on the rarest of theories and assumptions. It is also thought that the diet is so loaded with protein for consumption that one may not be able to consume the veggies and fruit required to go along with it. Finally, it must be asserted that Caveman Paleolithic is not a diet that is feasible for long term implementation, as it would result in one not being able to cover all necessary areas. www.weightlossbible.org /Cavemanpaleolithic.html   (432 words)

The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications Thus, the fossil and ethnographic data suggests that humans evolved on a diet that was primarily animal based and consequently low to moderate in carbohydrate, high in protein and low to moderate in fat. Stone age diets clearly were characterized by extremely high protein intakes by modern standards, yet bone robusticity and density (determined from fossil paleolithic humans) were greater than or equal to that of most modern humans despite the total absence of dairy products in stone age diets. The implications of a Paleolithic diet are that humans tend to do quite well on high protein animal-based diets in many regards including vitamin, minerals, and fatty acid profiles. www.chetday.com /cordaininterview.htm   (5208 words)

Paleolithic Diet Page (Paleo Diet, Caveman Diet, Hunter/Gatherer Diet) Paleolithic diet is a definition found in the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine. Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors is a study of jaw size and shape, tooth size, shape, and wear patterns, which give clues as to what the earliest human ancestors ate two to four million years ago. Diet Prevents Polio by Dr Sandler is a web site on a 50 year old book where he argues that low blood sugar, due to a high carb diet, makes one susceptible to polio, and other viruses and disease. www.paleodiet.com   (6703 words)

The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications Stone age diets clearly were characterized by extremely high protein intakes by modern standards, yet bone robusticity and density (determined from fossil paleolithic humans) were greater than or equal to that of most modern humans despite the total absence of dairy products in stone age diets. Although the dietary calcium to protein ration in stone age diets would have been quite low, the large amount of fruits and vegetables (35% of total energy) included in the diet would have produced a net dietary acid-base status which would have favored bone accretion even in the face of enormous protein intakes. The implications of a Paleolithic diet are that humans tend to do quite well on high protein animal-based diets in many regards including vitamin, minerals, and fatty acid profiles. www.mercola.com /article/carbohydrates/paleolithic_diet2.htm   (3147 words)

The Paleo Diet by Dr Loren Cordain, plus Neanderthin and the Origin Diet - Comments The Paleo Diet takes a look at the history of human nutrition, the factors that caused the major changes in the human diet, and the health effects that have resulted from those changes. No diet book has ever or will ever reach the one and only perfect diet for all mankind, and it would be remiss of this review to overlook some of the weaknesses (albeit minor) of this book. I am surprised that greater emphasis was not given to explaining and recommending the undoubtedly Paleolithic practice of eating a high proportion of the diet as raw foods. www.dietwords.com /paleo_diet.shtml   (1124 words)

Paleolithic Diet Worth a Closer Look, Expert Says Prehistoric diets, after all, were almost entirely free of saturated fat, sodium and sugar – factors associated with the rising levels of obesity, heart disease and diabetes commonplace in our own century. Also, the small amount of fat in the prehistoric diet contained a high proportion of unsaturated fat, such as omega-3 fatty acids, which are now believed to provide a heart-disease safeguard, Keith says. First, Keith says, the insight researchers have gained from studying paleolithic diets shouldn’t be interpreted as an invitation to abandon all the conveniences of the modern diet. www.aces.edu /dept/extcomm/newspaper/june1a01.html   (846 words)

The Paleolthic Diet: How Our Bodies Want to be Treated Paleolithic Diet: How our bodies want to be treated. The fossil record shows a massive decrease in average height, health, and rapid increase in disease, obesity, and population for cultures that survived the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a agricultural dependent one. Without this significant population boom, our diet as we know it could in fact be the same as it was before the advent of agriculture. www.healingcrow.com /dietsmain/paleo/paleo.html   (1301 words)

Paleolithic Diet The Paleolithic diet is a dietary system which concerns itself primarily with health (as opposed to ethical or economic) issues. Advocates of paleolithic nutrition believe that the best food for the human body is that food which it was designed to eat, and that dietary related diseases are caused by straying from that path. Normally the diet is what would be considered low carb though not to the extent of say the Atkins Diet. www.copacabanarunners.net /i-paleolothic-diet.html   (426 words)

Paleolithic diet definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms easily defined on MedTerms Paleolithic diet: The Paleolithic diet is a weight loss plan based upon the premise of consuming only those foods available during the Paleolithic era (also known as the Stone Age). Although the diet of people in the Paleolithic Era varied by geographic region and availability of foods, most Paleolithic diets would have contained mostly meats, fruits, nuts, and vegetables with very little (or no) cereals, grains, or milk products. This diet today would be considered a form of high protein diet, which may pose health risks because high protein diets stress the consumption of meats and high protein foods that contain saturated fat and a high percentage of overall fat. www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=76931   (323 words)

What exactly is the 'Paleolithic diet'? However, rather than being a drawback of the Paleolithic diet, this is regarded as being beneficial, because low salt intake is strongly associated with reduced risk of hypertension (excessive blood pressure). There are substantial areas of agreement between the proponents of the Paleolithic diet and the majority of nutritionists who have not (or at least not yet) been convinced that we should all try to become 'Paleos'. Although there is little doubt that the potential of the Paleolithic diet (or at least of some aspects of this diet) to improve the health of people in developed nations is worthy of further research, it is probably inappropriate (at least at this stage) to recommend widespread adoption of the diet. www.nutritionaustralia.org /Food_Facts/FAQ/Paleolithic_diet.asp   (1911 words)

Neanderthin - Outline of the paleolithic diet The simple explanation of the diet, is that only food which is edible in its raw state AND which was available in the Paleolithic age should be eaten. It is essentially a similar diet to what the hunter-gatherer would eat. The success of the Neanderthin diet, and other Paleo-diets may have more to do with removing refined foods from the diet - rather than a premise of "eating what the caveman ate". www.everydiet.org /neanderthin.htm   (380 words)

[No title] The western diet is overburdened not only by saturated fats, but there is an imbalance in the type of polyunsaturated fats we eat. Thus, the fossil and ethnographic data suggests that humans evolved on a diet that was primarily animal based and consequently low to moderate in carbohydrate, high in protein and low to moderate in fat. Obviously, humans have had little evolutionary experience with the modern high carbohydrate, high fat, cereal based diet which is omnipresent in western, industrialized countries, and there is considerable evidence to suggest that these types of diets have the potential for creating health problems in some, but not all people. www.mercola.com /article/carbohydrates/paleolithic_diet.htm   (2738 words)

Comparison of Popular Low Carbohydrate Plans The "low carb diet" has become extremely popular in the United States in the past few years, and continues to have a large following despite the frequent criticisms by various diet experts. As a weight loss diet, any of these plans can work, however, if it is then discarded and previous eating habits are restored it is likely that any weight lost will be regained, as with any short-term diet, however effective. And going off the low carb diet can definitely promote weight gain in excess of that which was lost, due to metabolic changes, which occur. www.low-carb-diet-recipes.com /comparison.htm   (181 words)

Paleolithic Diets, The Paleo Diet Book, The Paleolithic Prescription, Syndrome X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Written especially for the general reader in a light clear style, this book is based on the diet that all people ate for 2.5 million years, until farming started some 10,000 years ago (in some parts of the world). Why be confused by diet?- here's one that's got 4 to 10 times the normal level of vitamins (without supplements), is high in good omega 3 fats, low in harmful fats, is very low in toxins (lectins, phytates etc), tastes great and makes you healthy. Many authors from Pritikin to Atkins claim that their diet is best because it is based on man's original diet, but few come close to it, and nobody can compare to Professor Cordain who is the world's undisputed grandmaster of Paleolithic and Hunter-Gatherer Diets. www.thepaleodiet.com /paleo_books/paleodiet.shtml   (3330 words)

Paleolithic diet [Archive] - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community It sounds as though this diet might be a version of a low carb diet. I am using the Eat Right 4 Your Type diet but it is very similar to the diet you described. Since starting the diet I have lowered my blood sugar to normal, my cholesterol to normal and avoided having to use prednisone for my autoimmune disorder (ITP). www.3fatchicks.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-14826.html   (506 words)

The Paleolithic Diet The archeological record shows that there was a sharp decline in stature and health that went along with the change to the agricultrual diet and lifestyle. The rules of the Paleolithic Diet are simple: Only eat what was available to the early hunter-gatherers. The most important thing to keep in mind is that this diet is a permanent change to your lifestyle. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/roberthodgen/paleo.htm   (1171 words)

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