Originally Posted By: Wolf359
Originally Posted By: Astro14
I've got family members who've had great success with the Paleo approach, but it's not easy to maintain that discipline when our grocery store shelves are filled with empty calories and processed foods.
Yeah, I've wondered about the Paleo approach, cave men didn't actually have that long a lifespan, around 25-35 so why are they copying their diet again?
Because 4 million years (give or take) of human evolution hasn't caught up with the changes wrought by the past 8,000 years of agriculture...
What we adapted during those first 4 million years isn't commonly found on grocery store shelves today. Besides, we face fewer mortal threats than cave men, so mortality isn't a fair comparison...