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| The Stone Age Diet is a diet which attempts to | | | | artificial additives. |
| recreate the way Man ate around 30,000 or 40,000 | | | | There is a wide variation in individual requirements for |
| years ago. Visit Here | | | | nutrients, just as there is a wide variation in the ability to |
| It is sometimes also referred to as the 'paleo' or | | | | cope with potentially harmful chemicals. But taken |
| 'paleolithic' diet. Those who use it believe that going | | | | overall, a population well adapted to its food and |
| back to eating this way eliminates the root cause of | | | | environment is generally robust and healthy. On the |
| many of the chronic health problems we experience | | | | other hand, a population ill-adapted to its food and |
| today, which respond poorly to the | | | | environment suffers high rates of chronic ill-health, and |
| symptom-suppression approach of modern medicine. It | | | | this is what we are seeing more and more of today. |
| is particularly likely to be used in connection with | | | | The problem for us in our modern age is that we have |
| treatment for IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), other | | | | changed our diets radically compared to what Stone |
| chronic digestive problems, and a myriad of health | | | | Age Man ate. We have made bread and other |
| problems connected to food allergies or sensitivities | | | | grain-based products our staple foods. We have |
| and intestinal yeast overgrowth. | | | | liberally supplemented these with sugar and other |
| The thinking behind the Stone Age Diet is as follows: | | | | refined carbohydrates and with man-made fats, all of |
| Diet and nutrition is crucially important to our health. The | | | | which were unknown to Stone Age Man. And we |
| complex systems of our bodies need specific nutrients | | | | have changed our environment in terms of exposure |
| to function properly. Exactly what and how much we | | | | to toxins and man-made chemicals beyond all |
| need is down to evolution, in the sense that we are | | | | recognition. It hardly seems surprising therefore that |
| only in optimum health when we eat what we have | | | | chronic, degenerative diseases are rapidly rising in the |
| evolved to eat. Evolution is a slow process, measured | | | | so-called 'advanced' populations of the world. It is |
| in not hundreds, not thousands but millions of years. As | | | | illustrative that many researchers on this subject refer |
| a result, any radical, sudden change to our diet risks | | | | to these diseases as the 'diseases of civilization'. |
| problems until our systems have had time to adapt. | | | | So what are the 'diseases of civilization'? The term is |
| Indeed, over the last 40,000 years less than 0.02 per | | | | most often used to refer to heart disease, |
| cent of our genetic code has changed. So our bodies | | | | hypertension, diabetes, cancer and obesity. However, |
| are basically still designed to work best with the same | | | | there are many other increasingly prevalent conditions |
| foods and nutrients they were getting 40,000 years | | | | which are thought to be linked with this mismatch |
| ago. This principle applies not only to what we readily | | | | between our modern diet and environment and the |
| recognize as our food and drink, but also to any | | | | diet and environment we have evolved to handle. |
| potentially harmful chemicals which we unknowingly or | | | | These include allergies and food sensitivities, asthma, |
| knowingly take in via the air or in our food and water. | | | | auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and |
| In other words, we have as yet only evolved to cope | | | | multiple sclerosis, multiple chemical sensitivities, irritable |
| with the conditions that prevailed back in the Stone | | | | bowel syndrome, celiac disease, autism, attention |
| Age. That is to say, when we were existing on a | | | | deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and chronic |
| hunter-gatherer diet of game meat, fish and seafood, | | | | fatigue syndrome (CFS). |
| insects and grubs, roots and tubers, plants and | | | | It is important to recognize that any attempt to |
| grasses, leaves, nuts, seeds, berries and other fruits. At | | | | recreate the real Stone Age Diet in our modern age |
| that time, we did not have milk or milk products, | | | | can only be an approximation. This is because the |
| because we had not yet domesticated animals. We | | | | nutrient and toxic chemical makeup of the soil is |
| did not have grains (wheat, corn/maize, barley, oats, | | | | different. Similarly, our plants and animals have been |
| rice etc) as these came later, when we learnt how to | | | | selected and bred for characteristics such as fast |
| become farmers in the Agricultural Revolution around | | | | growth, superior color or size or keeping qualities. So |
| 5,000 years ago. And we certainly were not exposed | | | | even our 'natural' foods today are different from those |
| to the thousands of man-made chemicals which find | | | | our Stone Age ancestors would have eaten. |
| their way today into our air and our food and water, | | | | |