1. Modern Food Outdated Bodies
The paleolithic-style diet follows the premise that our genetic predisposition to food has not changed for 2 million years. Basically, modern civilization is eating foods that attack and compromise our cave dweller bodies. Proof of the theory lies in the study of the remaining hunter-gatherer civilizations of the world where diseases, ailments and obesity are not plagues. Fossil records showing the onset of infectious diseases provide further evidence.
2. Carbs Aren't Natural
Before the agricultural revolution we ate primarily animal-based products. Paleolithic diet experts suspect 65 percent of our diet came from meat and 35 percent plants. While people can tolerate the modern diet, most have simply not adapted to our high carbohydrate, high fat diets. Paleo eating assumes the benefit of meat affecting our lean body mass ratio. On the no list for the paleolithic diet would include all agriculturally grown foods such as potatoes, beans, soy, peanuts, corn, wheat, rice, barley and oats. Bread, sugar and alcohol are also genetically unfriendly.
3. Mass Producing Toxic Food
Modern health foods such as beans, soy and whole grain are toxic in their raw state. Lectins run high in post-agricultural food and cause auto-immune disorders, diabetes and arthritis, just to name a few. Raw wheat, for example, would make us sick. The test of taste would preclude a hunter-gatherer from eating it. Until we learned to make toxic food taste good, we did not mass produce any foods that taste bitter naturally. Paleo dieters contend that we started slowly poisoning our bodies when we started eating food that we cannot eat in its raw state.
4. Double Your Protein
Some studies suggest that Neanderthals ate twice as much protein as we do today. The staple meat was probably game meat, which is lower in saturated fat, and seafood for tribes that lived near the sea. Nuts, seeds and insects were other sources of protein. No dairy products were available either, so they are not part of the diet. A simple desire to keep the much needed food from spoiling would mean the tribe would eat the game in a short amount of time. They did not know when they would find food again.
5. Eat Fiber and Nutrient Dense Foods
Hunter Gatherer's would have eaten many leafy greens and tubers. Eat all vegetables except corn and potatoes. Eat more fruits and berries. The paleolithic diet was geographically specific to what was available so no one diet existed. The test is to ask if the food is edible without any cooking or processing. If the answer is yes and the food is not bitter to the taste, eat it.
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