Paleolithic hunter gatherer diet
I’m a firm believer that nutrition has the ability to take charge of our health, wellness and longevity. Whether the nutrition is good or bad, the foods we put into our mouth can dramatically alter our hormones, our energy levels and of course, our wellbeing.
We are living in a society where the rate of illness and disease is on a continuous rise, in America alone there are 23million people diagnosed with cancer every year, 41million people diagnosed with heart disease, 50million people with high blood pressure, 80million people with diabetes (and that’s expected to double in 2 generations) and 64% of adults in America are either overweight or obese.
Studies have shown that 70% of all deaths in America are diet related, I wouldn’t be surprised however if that statistic was more like 90%.
The more I learn about nutrition, the more I see a common link towards nutrition and health, and nutrition for treating illness; I’m definitely not the only one. As Hippocrates said “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food“.
So where did society go wrong? Why do the majority of doctors prescribe medications and not a healthy diet? Why is our food so nutritionally deficient now? Why are so many people clueless as to what nutritionally deficient food is!?
Around 40thousand years ago, we humans lived as hunter gatherers; we lived off the land and what the land provided for us to eat and drink. As hunter gatherers, we fed off fresh fruits and vegetables in season, nuts, seeds and animals. There are many people who still live off the land, many villages in Africa and China will grow their own crops and eat what is available to them, and I bet most, if not all of them will not even know what cancer or diabetes is.
No more than 100-200yrs ago the industrial revolution began to refine and process foods until hardly any nutrition was left within those food products. Bread became whiter and whiter, dairy went from raw to pasteurised and sugar began to make its way into almost every modernised food product.
The paleolithic hunter gatherer diet is the oldest and most basic diet which humans have evolved with; it is basic to our biology, our digestive system and is what provides us with good health. Un-fortunately though many people are clueless as to how modern food techniques have damaged the quality of healthy food, of how chemicals and cacogenics enter our body almost every second of the day, how important sleep is to our health and how a good diet based off the foods we where created to eat can dramatically alter the quality of our health.
Not only is the paleolithic hunter gatherer diet good because it focuses on consuming those foods we as humans evolved to eat, but it simultaneously eliminates the over processed sugar laden foods now linked to causing the many, many diseases we are faced with in society today.
I’ve written a short article on how I believe heart burn/acid reflux can be treated and cured through focusing on nutrition, and as a result medication does not need to be used.
Good nutrition has and continues to treat and cure many conditions which go un-treated (and sometimes looked at as un-treatable) every day. Illnesses such as epilepsy, a condition many children and adults continue to face on a daily basis has been cured many times in both children and adults. Unfortunately in most cases medication will be prescribed and will continue to be for a lifetime.
If you haven’t seen the movie “First do no harm” which is based of a true story, I highly recommend watching it, at the very least watch these two short snippets of the film posted on YouTube, it will open your eyes to the roll nutrition really plays in our health.
Epilepsy isn’t the only illness which has been cured many times through a diet focusing on that of the paleolithic one. Autism, heart disease and diabetes, to name only a few have all been cured through the consumption of a strict paleolithic diet. This can only show that this diet alone can provide our bodies with all it needs to achieve and maintain good health.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food“
Like some Paleo recipe ideas?
Paleo breakfast recipes
Paleo Foccacia, sandwiches and cake recipes
Quinoa recipes
Paleo friendly chocolate recipes
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The Paleolithic diet, also popularly known as the paleo diet, caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a dietary regimen which seeks to mimic the diet of wild plants and animals that humans habitually consumed during the Paleolithic, a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture. Based upon commonly available modern foods, the Paleolithic diet consists mainly of lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar and processed oils.
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absolutely..
very interesting blog.. and very informative..