On The Experts website, an in-depth article in the light of the following research crushes the Paleo diet , or Paleolithic diet, both in its theoretical basis, thanks to a new study, and in its effective utility on health. First of all, I remind you what the Paleo diet is: it is a diet that has been all the rage since 2013 and which we have established in 2014. The bottom line is that to feel good you need to go back to eating like the man of the age of Stone or Paleolithic.The followers of the Paleo diet are convinced that from the Neolithic onwards the advent of cereals and legumes has caused all possible and imaginable diseases of man: as proof of this, they use texts by anthropologists even from the last century or two centuries ago. (I’m not kidding, I’ve read two), in which the life of certain tribes of hunters was observed and the diet was linked to their longevity , and the absence of disorders such as high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes. From here, making all the weed a bundle is an easy game: with grains, legumes, milk and dairy products abolished, the followers of the Paleo diet eat meat and game, fish, fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts, as well as vegetable fats.. Obviously, to get as close as possible to the diet of the man of the stone, carnivore and collector.
The spread of this diet has raised more than one doubt. Apart from the impossibility of reproducing the same food conditions of thousands of years ago , a study had already bugged the belief that the Stone Man did not eat legumes and cereals: traces of wild cereals and dried peas have been found in the feces of cavemen. in a recent study. Now another studyhe affirms that even the tribes who lived in primitive and pre-agricultural conditions, without cereals and farms but as hunters, had clear signs of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular problems after the age of forty. Another blow of the cleaver comes on the health effects of the Paleo diet: apparently the much proclaimed and inflated beneficial effects on cardiovascular health, diabetes and weight reduction have been reported in long-term studies, but they are the same as those of those who he has a balanced low-calorie diet and vegetarians, whose diet abounds in cereals and legumes. Finally, all the risks of feeding with large doses of animal proteins are increased by the health of the animals themselves: which should be raised in optimal conditions and with natural forages, or be wild. It is difficult to always succeed, and the threats of diseases that can pass from man to animal are just around the corner. In short, the Paleo diet, as well as being impossible to do in an orthodox way, would be a hoax .