Discovery of the true Paleolithic diet

paleo-foods-paleo-food-list-paleo-diet-recipes The Paleo diet or Paleolithic diet or paleodieta is having more and more success also in Italy , despite its theoretical bases have often been refuted by science: it is not true, according to the latest discoveries, that the Paleolithic man did not eat cereals or legumes and in the same way there are many tribal populations who eat a diet rich in complex carbohydrates and low in animal proteins. In short: if you thought that the Paleolithic man ate only meat and fish, a few vegetables and nothing else,Well, scientific research has progressed, and your romantic idea of how primitive men fed themselves finds less and less confirmation. However, the fact that it is unfounded from a theoretical point of view does not mean that the whole Paleolithic diet is to be rejected: the idea of making a more natural diet and not being afraid of animal fats and proteins has helped many people to actually lose weight.
But it could help us even more if we knew what the true Paleolithic diet consisted of, that is, if we had a well-founded and plausible idea of what humans actually ate before the Neolithic era and the widespread cultivation of cereals: before ten thousand years ago.

A help today is given to us by the experts ofItalian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory based in Florence , one of the most prestigious not only in Italy but also internationally. According to what was stated at the conference “The first flour in Tuscany. At the origins of nutrition ”, Paleolithic man ate foods obtained from gluten-free flours and cereals, which were therefore part of his diet together with game, fish and crustaceans and vegetables. Or at least that’s what he did in what we now consider the Tuscan land which therefore boasts the first flour in history according to our current knowledge. About thirty thousand years old.
But in what would this flour consist of the Palaeolithic man ate? A highly starchy flour, obtained by pulverizing the grains of the Cattail, ancient grains similar to spelled, which according to old history manuals grew in abundance in Greece and in some Arab countries.
This allows us to establish that the Paleolithics not only had a more balanced diet than those who try the paleodiet today, but also rich in starch, which they could metabolize like modern man. And now on what basis will those who make the paleodiet say that men once did not eat starchy foods?