What is the Paleo Diet?

Hi Bradley

The Paleo Diet is a diet that doesn't allow any foods that weren't available to humans back in Paleolithic times - over 10,000 years ago. So nothing packaged or processed.

The theory (and it certainly makes sense) is that humans evolved over the course of over 2 million years eating certain foods and our bodies are therefor used to and require the nutrients it gets from those foods. Since genetically, our bodies are virtually identical to 10,000 years ago, this diet should suit our needs much better than all of the packaged, processed, sugary, starchy, high GI, unhealthy fat diet we have gradually adopted since 10,000 years ago.

One of our expert contributors - Nell Stephenson - is an authority on the Paleo Diet and is the co-author of The Paleo Diet Cookbook, with Dr. Loren Cordain. So click on Nell's photo and at the bottom of her Group Profile, click the green box that says, "Ask group a question".

wow thats brillaint, thanks mark, might have to give this a try if i see no results on my current diet.