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Paleo diet: What is it and why is it so popular?
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Purpose
Why you might follow a paleo diet
Details of a paleo diet
What to eat
What to avoid
A typical day's menu
Results
Questions about paleo diets
Concerns about nutrition
Questions about the paleo diet theory
The bottom line
Purpose
Why you might follow a paleo diet
Details of a paleo diet
What to eat
What to avoid
A typical day's menu
Results
Questions about paleo diets
Concerns about nutrition
Questions about the paleo diet theory
The bottom line
Purpose
The purpose of a paleo diet is to eat foods likely eaten by early humans. The diet is based on the idea that our genes are not well adjusted for modern diets that grew out of farming.
Farming made foods such as grains and legumes more easily available. And it introduced dairy. Also, farming changed the diets of animals that people ate. The paleo diet idea is that these changes in diet outpaced the human body's ability to change, or adapt. This mismatch is believed to contribute to obesity, diabetes and heart disease today.
