Our primal meal plans
skip modern processed foods, grains and legumes and may include dairy such as butter, cream, milk, yogurt and cheese.
For those of you who live in a cave and have no idea what I'm talking about (pun totally intended), the paleo diet
restricts modern processed foods, grains, legumes, and dairy.
Paleo dieters eschew Neolithic foods such as agriculturally produced grains, as well as
more modern processed foods, including all junk foods, on the basis that human beings didn't evolve to eat these «manufactured» foods.
There is some wisdom in this — perhaps not so much from the quantity of carbs, but due to the quality (or lack of it)-- that is present in so
many modern processed foods.
When we use our evolutionary past as a template for our diets, we can reduce and often eliminate many health issues that plague folk who
eat modern processed foods.
[26][27][28][29] However, for some people, their gut is so messed up
by modern processed foods that they find they need to cut out all fibre containing foods.
Even ancient Alaskan mummies, where there is no possible contamination
of modern processed foods, show signs of heart disease and I believe cancer.
«The nutritional qualities of
modern processed foods and foods introduced during the Neolithic period are discordant with our ancient and conservative genome.
Which was interesting and it goes to show us that that type of diet without very much wheat, without dairy, without
these modern processed foods is probably very anti-inflammatory.
Many feel better when they skip
modern processed foods, grains, legumes, and dairy with a paleo meal plan.
The thinking is that our bodies and metabolisms weren't meant to cope with grains, legumes, dairy, or
modern processed foods and sugars.