THE PALEO DIET
Putting Healthy Nutrition in Context T
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oday, we remain the genetic equiva- lent of a caveman, yet the environ- ment in which we live is vastly dif-
ferent than the world our genes evolved in. For millions of years our ancestors lived in a state of complete connectedness with the natural world. They woke with the sun and slept with the moon. They ate what they could forage from the woods or kill in the fields. Today, we have lost that health-giving connection with nature. The poor health of modern day hu- mans is directly related to the modern diet. Historical, anthropological, and observa- tional studies of past and present hunter- gatherers show they did not have heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or other chronic degenerative diseases that afflict so many people today. Our ancestors enjoyed good health not from better genes, but from a better way of living and eating that has become lost in our modern world. Historical humans ate sugar-rich foods
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in very small amounts and usually during brief periods of time like the late summer and fall. Ten thousand years ago the agri- cultural revolution introduced grain prod- ucts to the human genome for the first time. With the beginning of grain cultiva- tion, humans were exposed to sugar-rich foods in amounts they were not designed to handle. Historical man, previous to the agricultural revolution, ate very little grain because the technology to process it was not available. If you have ever tried to eat unprocessed grain you will quickly learn it is nearly impossible to digest. During the 19th and 20th centuries, with the advent of the industrial and technological revolu-
tions, the high sugar insult on our genetics began to rise exponentially. This trend continues to rise with no end in sight. Today, starchy processed foods are unfor- tunately the mainstay of the modern world. The agricultural revolution also al-
lowed us to domesticate animals for the first time. As a result, milk consumption became common. The prospect of milking a wild animal would have made milk consumption from animals unlikely and extremely dangerous before the agricul- tural revolution. Both grain and dairy products represent foods that our genes have not fully adapted to due to their re- cent introduction into the human diet. Because of this recent alteration, there are many people today with intolerances and allergies to gluten (a protein found in most grain products) and dairy.
Other insults on our genes occurred with the introduction of salt around 5000 years ago, the introduction of widespread grain-fed livestock around 200 years ago, and the introduction of synthetic foods like trans-fats, high fructose corn syrup, and artificial sweeteners around 40 years ago. Also, now our genetics and the environ- ment has to deal with GMO foods. The table below is a summary of the evolution of the modern diet. To help you understand the impact of
the agricultural revolution, consider this. If we distilled all of human evolution down into one 24 hour period, we have been eating starchy grain and dairy products for about nine seconds. That simply is not enough time for our genes to adjust fully to their use in our diet.
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