The Paleo Diet: The Stone Age Diet

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The Paleo (Paleolithic) Diet can be commonly referred to as the “caveman diet” a lifestyle that is aggressively based on the diet of man during the Paleolithic era. It mainly focuses on whole foods like meat, vegetables, and fruits while escaping the foods such as grains, dairy, soy, legumes, processed foods like sugar and additives. The Paleo diet gained a following when it was popularized by the gastroenterologist Dr. Walter L Voegtlin in his book The Stone Age Diet: Based on In-Depth Studies of Human Ecology and the Diet of Man, published in 1975 he explains that the source of the Paleo diet remains for the fact the human body has not altered as much as the human diet has evolved. He goes on to say that people in these times depend on