Thousands of years ago, humans ate mainly vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots and meat. Today, largely replaced by refined sugars, cereals, bread, pasteurized dairy products, etc., our diet is limited in plants.
While our technological advances may be impressive, our food and food manufacturing processes are far from beneficial to our species. On the contrary... Chronic diseases are more present than ever and this is probably not a coincidence.

The Paleolithic diet includes everything that can be consumed without modification, i.e. no bread, no pasteurized dairy products and a large portion of fruits, vegetables, nuts and fish, poultry and lean meats.
Dr. Frassetto's research shows that the caveman diet maintains balance in the body, while reducing excess body fat, normalizes blood sugar levels, and reduces toxins and anti-nutrients.
By eating foods that are consistent with our genetic ancestry, most of the diseases associated with modern diets are obviously avoided. By significantly reducing or eliminating the foods responsible for the so-called diseases of civilization and replacing them with a healthier and more natural cuisine, it is quite possible to improve health.

A "side effect" of rebalancing our body chemistry is weight loss.

Eating too many sugars and carbohydrates causes a cascade of chemical reactions in our bodies, resulting in hunger and cravings. The result is simple, fructose and carbohydrates lead to excess body fat, overweight or obesity, with all the risks that this entails.

The Paleo diet has proven to be very effective in reducing blood pressure and cholesterol, which is quite understandable when you realize that fructose is a major contributor to high blood pressure, even more so than salt. The cause is uric acid, a by-product of fructose metabolism, which increases blood pressure.

Excessive sugars, including grains, raise cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

The simple act of eliminating sugars and grains from our diet therefore effectively reduces the risk of a number of health problems: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, insulin resistance, overweight and high triglyceride levels. No wonder the Paleo diet works so well.

It is, of course, difficult nowadays to adapt one's diet to get back to basics. This includes sacrifices and is not always easy to do when you have an active social life, but it is possible and important to get as close as possible to the diet of our distant ancestors and get back to basics, eating "real" food.
In general, a healthy diet consists of whole, unprocessed foods, mostly raw or lightly cooked (a third of raw food would be ideal), organic and free of additives, and if possible local and seasonal.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors not only had a beneficial diet, but that's not all. Instead of being sedentary most of the time, they combined a lot of walking with periods of high-intensity activity.

Sometimes it is necessary to be able to turn around. Ready to go back a few thousand years?