The Real Paelo Diet

Buddy and I have been considering a paleo diet much to the dismay of our trainer and doctor.

In all likkihood the diet of the big apes , would be a good starting point.

Our evolutionary forefathers would have foraged 70 percent of the time in search of foodstuff.much like the gorillas, chimps and bonabos.

This tells me in order to follow a true paleo diet my Buddy and I are going to have give up our day jobs.

To get a better picture of this diet , see BBC the truth about Food put some humans in a zoo and fed them a diet consistent with what the other primates were eating. The upside of this was their blood sugars and cholestral levels came out ever so good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mue6z0igQIU

Talk about back to the future!

The new shopping list:

1.Small game — really small game — like rats, mice and squirrels. {whole foods is going to have to expand their meat dept}

2. plants, pre-selective breeding. Sour and bitter tastes existed in many plant foods before human interference. Although paleolithic man probably would avoid downright foul-tasting (and likely poisonous) food, the plants that they ate were hardly nice, friendly spinach or carrots. Many modern vegetables are more pleasant mutations and hybridizations of less pleasant or even poisonous plants such as the genuses solanum (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers) and prunus (almonds, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries).

Safe varieties were likely discovered by just eating them and hoping it didn't kill anybody. {guinea pigs needed for testing}

3. another item for the grocery basket paleolithic people are known to have eaten woody stems, stripped bark, and pith: things suspiciously absent from the modern paleo diet that probably contributed to the extreme wear and tear on their teeth observed in fossil individuals. {we are going to need a dental plan}



4. Organ meat — a critical part of paleolithic man's diet. Does the average paleo dieter eat brains, tongues, stomach, eyes, liver, or kidneys? All of these brought important nutrition to our "healthy" ancestors that doesn't exist in white meat and cuts of grazing beef.


5. Insects, especially grubs and large beetles, including roaches.


6. Lizards, newts, frogs, turtles and anything else that had meat on its bones {sadly lacking in most grocery stores}

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7. Grains and other starches such as sorghum, wild corn (in both North and South American), potatoes (South America), and a large variety of seeds. Evidence for consumption of legumes such as wild lentils has also been found, along with stone tools associated with processing them. Note we need more stonewear in our kitchen drawers.

Fruits and nuts.


Paleolithic man had eating habits and requirements that were dramatically different. Modern man exists with lots leisure time, to much time in the office , on the computer, in front of the tv and has central heating to keep himself warm., as well as doctors, surgeons, hospitals, antibotics, and winter wear Modern man has by far to many calorie options and way to many varies of foodstiff to choose from and sugar. Paleo man got his sweets thru fruit and honey. {if he was lucky}

Weight loss is best acheived on this diet by Buddy and me copying the Paleo man's activity.

That is hours of treking and pursuing our wild game, and not withguns, thats cheating, but with real home made spears with hand carved flint points and homemade bows and arrows,{a real evolutionary jump , maybe a form of cheating as this item appears to have come only in the last 40.000 years}.
as well as energy expended on the gathering up wood for heat. Of coarse the ogathering of roots ,tubers , and nuts for the winter.{ paleo gardening}