Gut instinct leads to the perfect diet
November 24th, 2005
FORGET Atkins, South Beach and other low-carb diets, the answer to Western health problems lies in caveman genetics.
Obesity, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes are all linked to lifestyle and the movement away from our hunter-gatherer origins, according to a US diet expert.
Loren Cordain told a Sydney conference yesterday the Western food regimen - high in refined sugars and processed foods - was the largest cause of death in the Western world.
“Our genetic make-up is governed by what our ancestors ate - a diet consisting of lean meat, vegetables and fruit with no dairy or processed foods such as breads, cookies or cereal,” Professor Cordain said. The onset of agriculture 10,000 years ago saw the Western diet change so rapidly that our bodies could not adjust in time.
She said time and anthropological evidence proved the caveman diet was the only one to boost health and life expectancy.
Source: theaustralian.news.com
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