Go Back In Time With The Paleo Diet

By Andrew Simpson


In the time when our ancestors had to hunt down a wooly mammoth to get our food, there were no homo sapiens who had double chins or a spare tire about their gut. Living in a time when you had to find your own food in the wild meant a healthier diet for all. You can take advantage of the practices of the past with the Paleo Diet.


The Paleo Diet is the solution to a huge number of different weight issues. If you simply want to eliminate love handles or if you want to totally change your eating habits, going for all-natural ingredients is the best way to ensure that you do not put on more pounds.

Why does the Paleo Diet work? All-natural food in today's world is becoming more and more of a rarity. This is because factory farming makes it easier and easier to put food on the table, even if that food has only a fraction of the nutrition that natural ingredients do. The Paleo Diet combats the advance of artificial food that creates artificial health problems.

If you have been eating processed foods all of your life and want a solution to the fat growing about your stomach and waist, you need only do what our ancestors did and find foods that occur naturally in the world. Making a commitment to the Paleo Diet is a sure-fire way to eliminate fat stored up from a lifetime of unhealthy choices.

Many of the foods we eat today may as well have been specifically designed to make us fat. Hydrogenated oils are almost impossible to digest in the human metabolism and turn instantly to fat once they are eaten. High fructose corn syrup, likewise, is effectively pure sugar and will be stored as body fat unless immediately burned off.

Archeologists have shown that human brain sizes have grown significantly in only the past few ten thousand years or so. This is because the paleo diet provided excellent nutrition needed to keep brain matter growing and muscle mass strong. Compare this to a modern diet, which only excels at creating a ring of fat around our midsections.

The major limitations on the Paleo Diet are the foods that are manufactured in laboratories rather than on farms. Since mankind did not domesticate any animals in the Stone Age, dairy products are off the menu, though you can use substitutions like coconut milk for many of your favorite treats. The oils and syrups that plague modern meals are eliminated.

This is the great advantage of the Paleo Diet. Ten thousand years ago, someone who caught a fish or nabbed some eggs or brought back a cauliflower plant to the tribe would have eaten it and enjoyed every bit of nutrition. Today, we eat potato chips that contain no nutrition at all.

Choosing the Paleo Diet is not about restricting yourself. In fact, it is just the opposite. Nearly every meal you have ever had can be incorporated into the Paleo Diet so long as it is made with natural ingredients. If you love lobster bisque, you need only ensure that the ingredients are as natural as the lobster and the vegetables -- our ancestors did not have a food processor, but that is not a problem.

The best part of the Paleo Diet is that it does not compromise on nutrition. If you want to bulk up and get a set of killer abs, you can get all the protein you need. If you want to fight flu season, you can get more than enough Vitamin C.

The end result is more fat burned away from your stomach, thighs, arms, and waist. It is not a matter of counting calories, simply a matter of letting your body process the nutrition it needs on a daily basis.

What is the result? On the Paleo diet, you need not live like a caveman, but your physique can certainly look like one. You get the nutrition needed for a healthy and happy life while your metabolism revs up in order to process each meal. You burn away excess body fat while creating muscle mass and trim away the unsightly fat built up by a lifetime of artificial ingredients.




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