Paleo Diet

The Paleo Diet, or Paleolithic Diet (sometimes also referred to as the Caveman Diet or Hunter/Gatherer Diet) is based on the premise that humans should eat a similar diet to that of our ancestors before the dawn of the agricultural age. Paleo practitioners believe humans are omnivores who can and should include meat and protein in the diet, as long as it is lean wild meat. Other acceptable foods on the diet include eggs, berries, most vegetables, and most fruits and nuts. Foods not allowed include processed meat, sugar (except honey), corn, wheat, rice, barley, legumes such as peanuts and beans, soy, potatoes, dairy products, pasta, and bread. The idea behind this way of eating is that it is how our bodies are meant to eat and that the agricultural age brought with it grains and degenerative diseases.

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