The Paleo diet, also called the caveman diet, is a contemporary diet plan based upon the assumed diet plans of cavemen throughout the Paleolithic age. This was the period of about 2.5 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago.
This diet is based on foods offered today that would be similar to what the caveman would have consumed. Mostly fish, grass-fed beef, fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, roots and nuts. It does not consist of grains, dairy, legumes, salt, sugar, alcohol, and processed oils.
The thinking is that the modern human is genetically adjusted to the diet eaten by our ancestors over this Paleolithic era. Cavemen didn't have the contemporary diseases that are widespread today like cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
A Paleolithic hunter-gatherer would have been more of a gatherer than a hunter. Take a look at chimpanzees. They are expected to be the closest to us genetically and they consume
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If you look at the early Paleo age, around 250 million years earlier, primates would have eaten practically no meat at all. They would have existed off a diet of leaves, bugs and roots. Maybe a lizard or a mouse every as soon as in a while.
In the end of the age, human beings were less nomadic and started growing crops and domesticating animals. They might have eaten less bugs, but leaves were still in the diet, particularly green leafy plants. Roots were also in the diet, as were many other vegetables. They also included grains (and quickly beer). Dairy products came along around then. T-bones couldn't have been to far behind.
There is no doubt that a Paleo diet is much better than the SAD (Standard American Diet) these days. Even if they ate mainly meat, it wasn't covered with cheese and in between 2 pieces of processed starch and fat with a side of starch fried in fat. If they did eat a lot of fish, they were not contaminated with the PCBs, Mercury and other contaminants of