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Pages: 307
The Paleo diet is explosively popular. "Paleo diet" is short for "Paleolithic diet", also known as the "caveman diet". The Paleo diet is based on what people ate in the Really Old Days, starting some two and a half million years ago, when humans first showed up on the Stage of Life. Humans back then were hunter-gatherers; the basic rule for their diet was: if it runs (or swims, or flies) away from you, or you can yank it off a bush (or tree), you can eat it.The point is that people developed and survived for a couple of million years doing the hunter-gatherer thing, and are thus genetically adapted to the Paleolithic diet. Since people changed gears - so to speak - to modern agriculture a mere 10,000 years ago, human genetics has hardly had a chance to catch up. That is to say, people are genetically identical to the hunter-gatherer model, but are eating stuff that model was never ...
