The Paleo diet (short for The Paleolithic diet) is a way of
shaping your food input based on the things that we as a species used to eat
before the dawn of the modern civilization. Long before the Pyramids were
built, our ancestors used to roam the wilderness of the scarcely inhabited
Earth. Then, there was no agriculture, no animals were tamed or used in for
human diet. Today, that has changed, but our genetic makeup and the way our
metabolism works didn't. Today we are the same as our ancestors, but our food
is completely different.
The Paleo diet encourages the use of things like fish,
grass-fed pasture raised meats, eggs, vegetables, fruit, fungi, roots, and
nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, potatoes, refined salt,
refined sugar, and processed oils.
Here you can learn more about the Paleo Diet and why it may
be a good thing for you.
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