Caveman Diet
Description:
Several authors like Ray Audette and Loren Corden have written books that are basically variations of a theme: “The Caveman Diet.”
These authors, who appeal mainly to men, argue that if you want a lean muscular caveman’s body, you get one through “stone age nutrition.” After all, humans ate that way for over two and a half million years, and only recently began to ruin their bodies with modern foods. The premise is that you should not eat anything that your long-long-ago ancestors did not consume – which leaves out processed foods, breads and other foods made from flour, dried fruits and meats, dairy products, pasta, beans, sugar and artificial sweeteners, salad dressings, and other modern delights. Instead, you should eat foods only in their natural state: raw fruits and vegetables, nuts, and meat, lots of meat. Each form of the Caveman Diet has different rules. For example, the Neanderthin version allows bacon, eggs, pork rinds, beef jerky, sausage, and dairy products, which makes it more like the Atkins Plan. Usually, you can eat all you want of “caveman foods” but in order to insure good nutrition, you have to eat vegetables and/or fruit with your meats and nuts.
Created:
2001
Categories:
Low Carb, Fad, High Protein
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Books:
Yes
Sample Menu:
A typical day may look something like this:
BREAKFAST
All the grapefruit you want or all the bacon you want
LUNCH
All the salad and nuts you want, or you may replace nuts with meat
DINNER
Vegetables and all the meat and poultry you want
See:
Neanderthin by Ray Audette, Troy Gilchrist, Raymond V. Audette and Michael Eades (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999)
The Paleo Diet by Loren Corden (New York, Wiley Publishing, 2001)
The Evolution Diet by Joseph Stephen Breese Morse (Code Publishing, 2006)
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