Diet – Why there should only be ONE
Here at PrimalHealthyFit.com, we recommend one specific diet. The benefits of this diet are many and HUGE (like alleviating allergies, joint pain, heart disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, obesity, preventing cancers, healing auto-immune diseases, improving sleep and mood, and countless other enormous perks)! However, before we introduce you to this diet, we would like to tell the story of its long-lived, successful history.
Our conundrum as humans:
Homo sapiens (that’s us) have been around for approximately 200,000 years. After the end of the Ice Age, farming was born. This is officially called the Neolithic Revolution, and it marks the change of our genetics for the worse. We got shorter, our bones became softer, and pretty much every modern disease known to man began to appear. Despite these changes, our insides have changed very little. This revolution brought about many great things, and without it, we would not have advanced as a species the way we have. Unfortunately, our bodies have not adapted to the drastic changes our diet experienced as a result of the agricultural revolution, and that has created quite the problem (pictured below).
So What?
The only foods our bodies can “handle,” or process correctly, are the ones that were around before the agricultural revolution. That time span includes 95% of our species’ existence! Starting to make sense why we have not had enough time to adapt to the “new foods” that cavemen and women did not have easy access to? When we eat grains, legumes, dairy, and processed sugars (and all the other food inventions of recent history), our insides get literally destroyed, our bodies become insulin resistant or intolerant, we become inflamed, we get fat, and we get sick- REALLY sick.
Side note: If you are making an argument in your head about how we are healthier as a species now than we were 100,000 years ago, you are unfortunately mistaken. The life expectancy of Homo sapiens was shorter then NOT because of disease, malnutrition, or other health issues, but because of DANGER! Lives are cut short more often when dinner can eat you first.
Oh-no! What shall we do?
Don’t fret, luckily a vast amount of anthropological research has been done to discover just what our cavemen ancestors ate that kept them so healthy, and hence what WE need to eat to stay healthy as well. The result of this research is the Paleo Diet, the #1 Recommended Diet here at PrimalHealthyFit.com. Visit the #1 Recommended Diet page to learn how to reclaim the health and vitality that is your birthright as a human.*
*All non-humans, please consult a specialist.
