The Paleolithic Diet Review

The premise of this diet is that by returning to the nutritional consumption of humans during the Paleolithic era, one can detoxify and thus in the process lose unwanted and unhealthy excess poundage.

The diet consists of lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, roots and nuts and avoids grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar and processed oil. The basis of the diet would be the genetic adaptation of humans to the Paleolithic diet and thus be better for the over-all health and well being of humans by undertaking it.

Though some argue that current diet regimen is not an accurate representation of the Paleolithic diet, questions as to its realistic application have been raised. The logic that the diseases of civilization has been relatively absent in hunter gatherer societies because of the absence of calories is viewed as flawed, since there are many other factors involved in the over-all social conditions that lead to the health of the individuals then rather than merely focusing on the diet of the ancient peoples.