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Stone Age Diet


raw food diet cavemanBefore agriculture and its products

The Stone Age Diet is also called: Paleolithic Diet, , Paleo Diet, Caveman Diet, and Hunter-Gatherer Diet and is a nutritional plan based on a period that ended 10.000 years ago with the development of agriculture. This means that back in the Stone Age they were not introduced to food products like grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar and processed oils.

Lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, roots and nuts

In the Stone Age, before the development of agriculture, our ancestors didn’t suffer from cardiovascular disease or diabetes. They had a lower body weight and blood pressure. So what was their “secret”? Well, the first thing that comes to mind is the fact that they were very physically active, but there are other factors.

Stone Age humans lived on lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots and nuts. Food back then contained more fibers and less fat. Here is a list of what they didn’t eat during that period:

  • Stone Age humans didn’t consume much dairy food
  • Stone Age humans did not eat high carbohydrate foods such as legumes or yeast-containing foods, or cereal grains
  • Stone Age humans didn’t use salt or sugar in their cooking

The Stone Age Diet

The Stone Age Diet is based on what the humans ate during the time before the development of the agriculture. That is why the Stone Age Diet is based on berries, fruits, vegetables, root vegetables, fish, egg and wild meat. The diet therefore exclude products like rice, pasta, bread, refined white flour, cooking fat, salt, sugar, milk and dairy food. Carbohydrates should be kept as low as possible.

Protein and fat should have a ratio of 3:1 respectively by weight. The Stone Age humans ate a lot of animal organ meats like the liver, kidneys and brains. This kind of meat is extremely rich sources of nutrition and is recommended.

The food is cooked from scratch so you can’t use any canned or processed food in the diet.

More people would lose weight and become healthier if they would cut down on fat, sugar and salt. Our body doesn’t really need much sugar and saltt in order to function. But let’s not forget that many of us could become a lot healthier by just becoming more physically active, like in the Stone Ages.