The Paleolithic Diet
Meals
The modern dietary regimen known as the Paleolithic diet
(abbreviated paleo diet or paleodiet), also popularly referred
to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer
diet, is a nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet
of wild plants and animals that various human species
habitually consumed during the Paleolithic—a period of about
2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago
with the development of agriculture. In common usage, such
terms as the "Paleolithic diet" also refer to the actual
ancestral human diet.
Centered around commonly available modern foods, the
"contemporary" Paleolithic diet consists mainly of meat, fish,
vegetables, fruit, roots, and nuts; and excludes grains,
legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed
oils
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