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My fiance is on the paleo diet. It’s pretty effective so far. He’s lost weight and tightened his form. Eating healthy is quite expensive, but well worth it. From what my fiance has told me, the paleo diet actually consists of some pretty yummy dishes. Pair this along with regular exercise and you should be good.

Any diet where cheese and yogurt are not permitted is not for me. lol.

No, I’m vegan. Although probably not a lot of science behind the diet, it sounds better than the current American diet.

Our ancestors may have been “fit” aesthetically speaking, but keep in mind that they were lucky to live until their 20s. It’s definitely a good idea to cut back on processed foods, but there’s no reason to glorify humans before civilization. Also keep in mind that unlike cavemen, we have more than enough alternatives to eating meat (and meat byproducts), and thus no reason to sustain the industries that kill animals for them.

I couldn’t deal with eating that much meat….
sorry.

@DrummingMediocrity@xanga - Agreed. 

There is no need to go on such a diet. Simply eating a good balance of required nutrients (from any healthy source, of course) and eating a healthy amount/at proper times will help you to lose weight. As will exercising while you do so. Imo, restrictive diets that are not medically supervised (such as for diabetics or for professional athletes) are likely to just lead to a higher chance of developing issues with food, such as becoming neurotic about every single food item or not even being able to enjoy a meal out at a restaurant or at a friend’s house. 

Seriously guys, it’s ALL about balance and keeping it as fresh and healthy as you can, not about following some specific named diet.

I have actually partook in this diet on two occasions. I wanted to debunk the myth of it all as I was skeptical as you were. I lost eleven pounds in a month which is slow and steady. I ended up doing the diet again for two and a half months and lost a total of thirty pounds. I did not really eat red meat but poulty and fish.

My personal trainer warned against this diet but there was no flaws as my skin cleared up, my memory was sharper and I had energy to spare. I wish I could give negative points but I can’t.

Apparently I’ve been on the caveman diet all my life…

But…but…where are the carbs? D:

Sounds pretty good to me.  I loves my meats.

I watched a segment about this on telly a couple of weeks ago. The meals seemed to be normal and healthy, just without all the fatty and processed foods.

If I could afford it all, and knew more about it, there’s no doubt I’d give it a try.

I’m pretty sure cavemen didn’t eat salad 

Cavemen also died in their twenties.

This is really popular with people who use the workout regimen crossfit. Both the diet and the workout group are over-hyped. I eat tons of processed shit and I’m 98 lbs, never get sick, have low blood pressure, and have an active lifestyle.  But to each his own, I guess. Just don’t be a douchebag about it.

Sounds like an excellent diet.  The processed food and too many carbs is what is killing Americans.  So, if you eliminate that then you are probably vastly improving your diet and health.  In truth, our ancestors did not eat as much meat as we do now.  Imagine you have to hunt your meat in order to eat it, you probably won’t be eating meat every day.  

It probably works, but the thing is, you have to stick to it.  I wouldn’t stick to it.

My diet consists of eating whatever I want but in moderation and trying to take a walk every now and again.  

Obvious maybe but the plants and animals that presently exist are not the same as those available then soooo not really possible to duplicate their diet? Also how do we know they were healthy or fit? Last I heard their lifespan was pretty short soooo not sure I’d want to imitate that? I don’t have a problem with healthier eating but not really into trying to figure out what cavemen ate and duplicate it. Doesn’t seem like it worked out so well for them.

I need to get on this diet!

Totally trying this.  

Totally.

@EJC102486@xanga
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my thoughts exactly.

i just love too many different foods too much to be willing to deprive myself this way.  call me unhealthy, call me what you will, but i think for me, the best way to be both healthy and happy is just to learn to find a balance of health and enjoyment in my diet.

YES, LET’S GET RID OF COOKING! IT’S A BLIGHT ON THE WORLD. 

it depends…I think if the goal is to lose weight it is bullshit.
The cavemen were slim (well i guess they were haha), because they moved more and had a better balance in burning and takin in calories.
 If you eat a piece of chicken breast and a few berries a day, you will lose rapidly (but it’s not healthy), if you eat a whole pig you won’t.I once read that an average male at that time needed over 5000 calories. I feel like people who have a problem controlling their portions (there sure are people who eat as much as this per day, but usually they are obese) will get even heavier following this.
If you ask if it is healthy (when done properly)..yeah I think it is.
Generally, I think it is good to go back to natural foods. Modern things like chemicals, or even just spices trick our taste and natural instincts. (in the middle-age ppl used salt to make their mouldy food tasty again!).
And eating protein makes you less hungry. As for the lak of carbs…once a veterinarian told me that some people suspect too many grains in dog and cat food to cause cancer. Maybe that’s tre for humans too, who knows.
But all this doesn’t mean that you have to do exactly THIS.
whatever people ate they ate because it was there, not because it was healthy, and people from different areas ate different things…so I think it’s ok to just eat more protein and less arbs, whih most people try to do anyway.

on another note: meat is not meat. The meat ppl buy nowadays is mostly unhealthy. I don’t feel well at the thought of eating something that was filled with antibiotics, got unnatral food to eat itself,and lived a life between it’s own poop and cadavers.
Often (espeially when you don’t see it) meat mainly consists of fat, because the animals are in cages and are made fat, and don’t get any exercise.

It looks like the Dukan diet. Too much meat induce rennet problems.

Another point is that this diet is said to be healthy “because Cro-Magnon, Neandertal and such didn’t suffer from heart disease and cancer”. Well, When your life expectansy is lower than 20, it’s not hard not to die of being too fat or of a lung cancer.

Last point. Archeologists found that prehistoric people made kind of “smashed-cereals cakes” (kind of Essen bread), dried or even brunt into the fire. So, carbs… cereals. So this diet is not a paleo diet anymore, but a “supposed former theory of paleo alimentation”.

We also know that paleo people ate each other (cheddar, Spain, Esat France and Germany it’s prouved), and didn’t have salmon, Tuna and oils to make marinades like in the paleo diet…

This diet is only another way of buying money, making people dreaming about the “beginning of humanity” and a dreamed “eden” that had never existed.

I’m vegan by the way (trying to avoid too much processed food too), and not against crudivorism, but this nerves me out. Money Money Money on people’s back, on people’s will to fit in…

Meh, I think it makes sense; the basic message of don’t eat unnatural shit food is so simple and true.

i like the paleo/ primal diet. I followed it for about 4 months then fell totally off the wagon. It’s a hard diet to “stick with”.

Looking good!  sounds like the paleo diet is really just low fat and low carb and no processed foods …a very healthy way to eat!

I would never go on this. Life is too short to eat like you are an underprivileged cave person when you can afford modern luxuries. That’s just stupid to me. I’m pretty sure the cave people would be incredulous we’d want to give up the wonderful options we have to eat like dairy and chocolate cake to eat like them. If you want to lose weight eat less calories than you need. I can’t stress this enough. I’ve taken nutrition classes guys…fad diets bring results, but if you don’t stick with the fad diet forever and go back to eating how you did before…you will gain weight. Learn how to eat right without the aide of a fad diet that seems impractical to follow for years and years. 

I’d recommend a vegan diet to lose weight…just me tho. Paleo sounds dangerous for your heart.

Average life expectancy of a Neanderthal : 16-22 years.
Average life expectancy of a modern American : 72-78 years.

Yeaaaaaaaaa… we should do what they did more often.

You all do know that the reason why our life expectancy is so high, is due to modern science affording us such things as medicine and adequate living spaces, so we don’t have to deal with harshness of disease and the elements. But from a physical standpoint the palelo diet is a great, because it cuts all the over processed food out that your bodies have  such a hard time breaking down for nutrients. Allowing you to have more energy and to be more fit 

Um, hello? Ever heard of Atkins? Pretty much the same thing. The only real things this diet cuts out are sugar and carbs, which everyone knows is bad for us anyway.

@Kimis2cute@xanga - yes, ask the French and Japanese about how bad carbs are xD.  Their diet is much better than anything atkins like.

Neanderthals didn’t live long enough to have to deal with heart attacks and cancer.  If you ate 6-11 servings of red meat a day and lived past 25 you would probably die of a heart attack.

Also, you people DO realize that you can choose to cut back on unprocessed foods and still eat a normal diet right?  You don’t have to quadroople your meat intake and cut out carbs to do that.  As for carbs being bad for your health, yeah, ask the French, the Italians, or the Japanese how those carb heavy diets are working out for them.  Much better than Homo Neanderthalis.