What Is Hunter Gatherer Diet All About?

BANDUNG, Indonesia - July 15, 2013 - PRLog -- The paleo diet, which is also called the Caveman Diet, or the Hunter Gatherer Diet, is a diet plan that tries to mimic closely what humans have been eating over the course of millions of years of evolution.

The last 84 tribes our world has ever known are some of the most slim, trim, and fastest people on this earth today as a whole. Why is this?

Is it genetics? Yes! They are living proof that genetics play a large part in not only the structure of our body, but also in the way our bodies function. This doesn’t mean that we are very different from these tribes and our ancient ancestors. We simply are not answering our bodies genetic call for food in the same way they do.

The main principle of the hunter gatherer diet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Vk47uQ388) is to eliminate things that our bodies are not genetically coded to digest. Your DNA has only changed 0.005% from cavemen who are over 2 million years old. Simply put, your body is designed to eat what cavemen ate. It's not designed to eat the latest laboratory creation by some for-profit mega-corporation.



People following the Paleo/Primal diet experience many of the below benefits:

- Increased and more stable energy levels
- Improved sleep
- Clearer skin and healthier looking hair
- Mental clarity
- Improved mood and attitude
- Improvements in those suffering depression or anxieties
- Less or no bloating, decreased gas
- Sustained weight loss
- Muscle growth; increased fitness
- Lowered risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer
- Higher immune function and a general feeling of well being
- Improved glucose tolerance; decreased insulin secretion and increased insulin sensitivity

Foods to Avoid

Salt, sugar, dairy, grains, peanuts, cashews, and potatoes are forbidden by this diet. This means that most, if not all, processed and convenience foods are not part of this diet.

Foods to Eat

Meat, poultry, and fish are all allowed on this diet, and many hunter/gatherer diet proponents particularly encourage the consumption of organ meat (liver, heart, kidney, etc). Fruits, berries, nuts (other than peanuts and cashews), vegetables, and eggs are other staples of the hunter/gatherer diet.

How about the lifestyle? Think Like a Caveman

They walk, run, and swim to get their food or to visit with a neighboring tribe and they dance and jump and run to celebrate special events.

Think about it, we don’t walk to a restaurant for dinner, we drive there, and a lot of times we don’t even walk into the restaurant, we simply hit the drive-through.

The simple everyday tasks these tribes perform keep them in an almost constant state of motion, and if you are moving you are burning calories.

So you want to eat like a caveman or cavewoman? Do you want to be stronger, fitter, faster, and healthier than you've ever been? The hunter gatherer style diet may be able to help you.