If a caveman didn't eat it, neither should you!
The paleo diet derives principles from our ancestral life of hunters and gatherers where the diet allows you to consume foods that were eaten by humans, millions of years ago during the Stone Age (Qiu et al., 2014). It eliminates processed and high-fat foods and focuses on consuming unprocessed whole foods, like grass-fed meat, free-range poultry, wild fish, root vegetables, berries and nuts and seeds. The diet avoids the consumption of refined sugars, dairy, grains and legumes in order to gain the right amount of fibre, minerals and vitamins through a regular eating pattern. The food being consumed is said to aid in the control of insulin sensitivity, improvement of gut health, reduce the amount of negative inflammation and thus increase nutrient absorption (Hou, Lee & Lewis, 2014). Despite the paleo lifestyle cutting out almost all carbohydrates and refined sugars, the paleo diet allows individuals to maintain the right amount of carbohydrates in the body through the consumpti...