Posted on December 29, 2011 by Jenny Cromack

There is an almost perfect race of human beings slimmer, stronger and faster than us. What’s more cancer,
diabetes, strokes, hypertension, depression and heart disease are absolute rarities to them. However they are
long gone in general, and now the average human is overweight, depressed and likely to develop a serious
medical complication in their lifetime.

Could this be the Key? Until 10,000 years ago the average human would eat food from their surroundings
game meat, small poultry, eggs, fish, veggies, some fruits in summer, nuts and other seasonal fare, it is more
commonly referred to as the Paleolithic diet. Well how is that different from healthy eating that jenny and I
constantly natter on about?

10,000 years ago in mans wisdom we began to adopt agricultural practices. This lead to the processing of
grains and flours etc, something that the human body cannot digest in an unprocessed state, something that
over the last 3 million years the body has not evolved to process. After all you don’t put diesel in your petrol
car?

Here’s the science that people overlook, beans, grains and potatoes are healthy right, everybody tells us! So
why didn’t people eat them 10,000 years ago? Simply despite their excellent energy potential, uncooked they
are toxic to the human body. There lies the key!

If you eat these food types you feel bloated well at least 90% of you will, that’s due to the lining inside your
intestines becoming aggravated and inflamed, not very good really. These food types furthermore are low in
many vitamins, minerals and antioxidants compared to their root vegetable equivalent. You could and I will say
that these processed carbohydrates are the ORIGINAL EMPTY CALORIES.

Furthermore these food sources are the only ones that effect blood sugar levels so dramatically, which can
only mean one thing, hunger, cravings, weight gain, and mood swings.

The essentials of the Paleolithic Diet are:

Eat none of the following:

• Grains- including bread, pasta, noodles
• Beans- including string beans, kidney beans, lentils, peanuts, snow-peas and peas
• Potatoes
• Dairy products
• Sugar
• Salt

Eat the following:

• Meat, chicken and fish
• Eggs
• Fruit
• Vegetables (especially root vegetables, but definitely not including potatoes or sweet potatoes)
• Nuts, eg. walnuts, brazil nuts, macadamia, almond. Do not eat peanuts (a bean) or cashews (a family
• of their own)
• Berries- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc.

Try to increase your intake of:

• Root vegetables- carrots, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, Swedes
• Organ meats- liver and kidneys (I accept that many people find these unpalatable and won’t eat
• them)

Don’t worry before you start thinking this is a low carbohydrate diet it’s NOT, most vegetables contain carbs in
greater nutritional quality than every processed carbohydrate known to us.

So here`s the challenge try to cut out gluten (basically processed carbohydrates, rice, pasta, potatoes.
Including wholemeal) and see how you feel after 10 days, you should find yourself with more natural energy,
happier and defiantly leaner.