The Paleolithic diet or the caveman diet is one of the newly developed diets that as the name describes consists mainly of foods that the cavemen of the stone age or the Paleolithic era used to eat, as humans started evolving and adapting to climate change and got to learn how to cook using fire it is mainly around the time their brains started getting bigger and more complex and their gastrointestinal system getting smaller and more efficient.
This diet is dependent upon foods that are only natural coming from the earth as fruits, vegetables, nuts, and lean meats but nothing that is processed or man-made can be consumed.
This primitive diet first started in the 1970s and gained popularity in the 21st century through the famous book” the paleo diet: lose weight and get healthy eating the foods you were designed to eat” by the scientist Loren Cordain which sold millions of copies all over the world.
Benefits of the paleo diet
The aim of this diet is to mimic the eating style of people in the stone age who were constantly actively hunting and gathering the food they eat totally from nature and without any processing. this lifestyle is what made those people healthy and with fewer chronic diseases that we suffer from at the moment in the industrial world we live in due to the lack of physical activity and sedentary lifestyle and the types of food we choose to eat from fast food that is full of fat and salt to snacking on highly processed food that is full of harmful chemicals and additives that is way cheaper to mass-produce to sustain the growing population but unfortunately, all those factors have been linked to the emerging rise in cases of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cancers and through eliminating these factors you decrease the burden of these diseases off yourself and ensure a better quality of life and longevity.
Foods you should eat in the paleo diet
1) Grass-fed Beef
114 grams of ground grass-fed beef contains 157 calories, 7 grams of fat, 0 grams of carbohydrates, 24 grams of protein.
Beef is the main source of protein in many diets as it has the highest amount of proteins than other animal sources, with all of the essential amino acids that help you build up muscles and lose weight. beef also has the highest content of heme iron that gets easily absorbed through the GIT in its current form and is used to make hemoglobin to carry oxygen in your blood.
What’s so special about grass-fed beef is that most of the beef we eat nowadays comes from cattle that are fed grains since it is cheaper In order to mass-produce them and make them fatter in a shorter period of time and some of these cattle are even given antibiotics and growth hormones to make them grow faster unlike in the past where cattle were roaming free and fed on natural grass that has no added chemicals or drugs to it and some countries in the world today keeps this way of raising animals like Australia, this difference in breeding makes grass-fed beef a bit more healthy if you look at the fat composition in them you find 5 times more the content of omega 3 fatty acids in grass-fed beef along with their wonderful benefits to all body systems, especially your heart, vessels, and your brain.
Grass-fed beef also has a lower content of overall fat than grain-fed beef making them leaner.
Grass-fed beef is richer in vitamins like vitamin B12, and B6 which aid in the formation of your Red blood cells, and vitamins A, and E which both have some powerful antioxidant properties along with a higher content of minerals like iron, zinc, selenium.
The only thing that might not make it a continuous part of your meals is that it is way higher in cost when compared to grain-fed beef but it is definitely worth it on certain occasions or if you can afford it.
