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The Paleolithic diet, Paleo diet, caveman diet, or Stone Age diet is a modern fad diet consisting of foods thought by its proponents to mirror those eaten by humans during the Paleolithic era. [ 1 ] The diet avoids food processing and typically includes vegetables , fruits , nuts , roots , and meat and excludes dairy products , grains , sugar ...
2. 5:2 diet: Eat normally for 5 days a week and restrict calories to 500–600 on 2 non-consecutive days. 3. Alternate-day fasting: Fast every other day, often allowing only about 500 calories on ...
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A Paleolithic-style diet is a contemporary diet regime, consisting of commonly available modern foods. It emulates the diet of wild plants and animals that humans and their close relatives habitually consumed during the Paleolithic (the Old Stone Age), a period of about 2 million years duration that ended about 10,000 years ago.
The paleo diet, or the "caveman diet," avoids dairy and grains and focuses on meat, produce and nuts.
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (c. 3.3 million – c. 11,700 years ago) (/ ˌ p eɪ l i oʊ ˈ l ɪ θ ɪ k, ˌ p æ l i-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) ' old ' and λίθος (líthos) ' stone '), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents ...
Before the advent of fire, the hominid diet was limited to mostly plant parts composed of simple sugars and carbohydrates such as seeds, flowers, and fleshy fruits. Parts of the plant, such as stems, mature leaves, enlarged roots, and tubers, would have been inaccessible as a food source due to the indigestibility of raw cellulose and starch .
By the upper Paleolithic, more complex tools and a higher proportion of meat in the human diet are assumed to correlate with an expansion of population in Europe. [28] Though the diet of modern humans is not consistent through the Upper Paleolithic, from the Middle to Late Pleistocene there is a general shift in many areas towards a less ...