Paleolithic diets

 Excerpts from article in PCC Sound Consumer

Paleolithic diets: Should we eat like our ancestors?

By Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D.
(February 2012) — PCC employee Janice Parker has eaten a whole-foods diet for many years, but 14 months ago she changed it in a way that led her to shed 30 pounds, feel less joint pain, sleep more soundly, have more energy, and, remarkably, control her diabetes without medication.
Her diet, recommended by her physician, now is based on grass-fed meat, fish, leafy greens and other vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds.

"Sometimes my breakfast is eggs with sliced avocado and tomato, and I may have greens and chicken breast or pork loin for lunch," she says. A handful of almonds makes a satisfying snack. What you rarely find on her plate is bread, rice or other grains, dairy, beans, sugar or other processed foods.
Janice isn't the only person who has benefited from this way of eating. It has been popularized in recent years as the "Paleolithic Diet" and is based on the premise that eating like our distant ancestors can help control weight and reduce the risk of diabetes, coronary heart disease, acne, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome and certain other disorders.
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By the time modern humans emerged roughly 50,000 years ago, our ancestors had adopted an omnivorous diet of cooked starches, meats (including organs), nuts, fruit and other plant foods.
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As Michael Pollan writes in "Food Rules," "There is no single, ideal human diet." 

Modern hunter-gatherer diets, however, tend to have certain things in common. They don't rely heavily on foods that became dominant after the development of agriculture, including dairy, grains and legumes. Starch comes from root vegetables similar to sweet potatoes, potatoes and taro. But most important, they do not eat industrial, processed foods.
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the amount of grains I eat dropped way off, but I still enjoy delicious goat and sheep cheese . . .
semi-Paleo