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For A New Plateau of Human Health...
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EVOLUTION DIET = HUNTER GATHERER DIET = PALEOLITHIC DIET = PALEO DIET = PALEOLITHIC NUTRITION (all of these terms are synonymous)
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The evidence is converging from multiple disciplines, centered on human nutrition and its relationship to the subjects linked above...



EDITOR

"Welcome to The Evolution Diet Chronicles"
J.R. Lagoni ; Geoarcheologist

Hunter-gatherer-health
HAPPY HEALTH!
Email: info@evolutiondiet.org


"You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here..."   
Alan Watts

"The joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
Albert Einstein

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
R. Buckminster Fuller

Red peppers and colorful vegetables


If you learn to simulate the nutrition of what the human diet has been through 99% of our evolutionary history, there is growing scientific evidence that it will alleviate obesity, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, arthritis, many auto-immune diseases, osteoporosis, rickets, poor health in older age, most all "chronic diseases", "diseases of civilization", asthma, acne, and more.

Our genes, physiology, and metabolic system have not had enough time to change from that of a hunter gatherer. Still existing hunters and gatherers on their traditional diets, and our hunter-gatherer ancestors, rarely, if ever, have had these health problems. Not coincidentally, wild mammals are also void of these problems - while their domesticated counterparts are not (e.g., dogs, cats, and cattle).

It sounds, and is, astounding. Think of it as the ultimate natural diet - where you consider our long evolutionary history as a major factor of what a natural diet for humans is ...and isn't. Even if you try to buy healthy in grocery stores and markets of today, you are very unlikely to be eating in accord with your natural history. The main foods that are being shown as unnatural for human digestion, or eaten in unnatural quantities, are sugars/sugar substitutes, transfats, grains/grain products, Omega 6 fatty acid rich animal foods, most industrial vegetable oils, and of course, processed foods. [Foods that comply nutritionally are detailed below; and some example meals are noted to the right.]

Through the ages there have been many specific "hunter gatherer diets", and thus, foods you can eat. However, all are within certain nutritional constraints which we evolved on over millions of years. Our "body machinery" will only operate optimally within those nutritional constraints.   They produce specific metabolic/physiologic human responses.

Some of these ancestral groups were very plant food oriented, but others were very animal food oriented. The key point - our genes and physiology are still that of a omnivorous hunter gatherer - having changed only an infinitesimal amount from what they were when each of our ancestors ate a hunter-gatherer diet.

This website's mission is chronicling, and communicating, the converging scientific information, centered around the specific historical disciplines that are pertinent and that ultimately define the "diet". The Evolution Diet Chronicles [menu top left] are to be compiled over time as a free resource for professional researchers, science writers and individuals interested for their personal or family health.


Evolutionary Nutrition: 
SHORT SUMMARY OF WHAT HISTORIC & PREHISTORIC EVIDENCES SUPPORT

DO EAT: [ eat only these - or if you can't, at least maximize them]
*Fresh vegetables [eat a variety, but not grains and legumes]
*Omega 3 rich animal foods [i.e., wild caught or free range]
*Fresh fruits [but watch total glycemic load, esp. with modern fruit juices]
*Tree nuts


BUT DON'T EAT: [ elliminate these - or if you can't, at least minimize them]
*Processed sugars, sugar substitutes
*Trans-fats, industrial vegetable oils
*Grains, grain derived products, and grain-fed, Omega 6 rich meats
*Processed foods
*Milk & dairy products
*Legume and legume products

[Click to expand or contract this summary graphic.]


 

Fruits and Veggies

DELICIOUS MEALS THAT COMPLY:

Wild-caught lobster w/ grass-fed cow's butter & asparagas ...
Lobster Tail Dinner

Free range pork, assorted veggies & fruit ...
Free Range Pork with vegetables

Asparagas, broccoli, & wild-caught fish ...
fish and veggies ...yum

Vegetables and fruit, but not grains, legumes or processed sugars ...
fresh fruits and vegetables

Wild-caught seafood stew with vegetables, herbs, & spices ...
Seafood Stew

More about evolutionary nutrition layman terms: Evolution-based Nutrition

 



DISCLAIMER: The information in this website is not a substitute for advice from your registered, licensed health care provider. (There are multiple doctors & professors that agree with the premise cited on the website.)

     

     
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