Description: A Diet with an odd concept. However, there are some who have found success with this diet. These people say that we should be eating the way our caveman ancestors did! Reviews (11):

The diet of Man today is much different Reviewer: Mark       07-12-2004 The diet of Man today is much different than that of ancient Man. As a whole, we eat much more meat than did ancient Man, and we eat different parts of the animal. Virtually all meat we eat is striated muscle tissue, the type of muscle in the arms or legs which does the running and heavy lifting. But there are three types of muscle: striated, smooth, and cardiac. Most people eat _no_ smooth or cardiac muscle in their diet. Ancient Man ate not only all three types of muscle, but organ meats and skin as well. Eating only striated muscle might make sense for an athelete like a runner or weight lifter, but for the average person this is a diet far different from that of your ancient ancestors. In addition to eating whole animal meat, it is also important to eat mature animal meat. Virtually all meat sold in supermarkets is from young animals, only a year or two old. It costs too much money to keep the animals alive until maturity. The flesh of these young animals is packed with the hormones and enzymes of young growing animals, which is great if you're going to feed it to children, but can be highly stressful to feed to an adult. Too many people continue the eating habits they learned as children into adulthood, where it causes many of the problems associated with middle-age. But there is one meat which combines all three types of muscle tissue plus various organs and is made from mature animals, retired dairy cattle which have already given birth and produced life-giving milk. This meat is bologna (pronounced ba-LO-ney), and is widely available at fine delicatessens and meat markets. Unfortunately, there is a conspiracy among the big drug companies to suppress this information. They know they would be put out of business tomorrow if everybody were eating bologna for health. Just in posting this to the net, I'm taking a chance that they might send out a hit man to kill me. So you'd better save a copy of this file because you might never see it again!

My Paleolithic Diet Reviewer: Jeff       06-05-2004 I'm usually on paleodiet. It is not an easy diet to follow. Nothing absolutely nothing artifical. I feel better when I'm on it but it's an ordeal fighting boredom. Also I haven't heard of anyone who has actually lost weight on it including myself. I feel better tho.

Caveman Diet on the news Reviewer: Mike       05-29-2004 I remember awhile back on Dateline they had a professor breaking down this diet and explaining it. He said that even Cavemen ate grains and elimation is ridiculous.

The Reviews On Amazon Reviewer: MARK W. DeNio       04-10-2004 You should try reading the 20 or so reviews on Amazon.com. There are a bunch of people there who've not only lost weight (one guy lost 150 lbs. in 2 years!) but have improved their health. I bought the book for myself off Half.com and look forward to its arrival.

Paleodiet... Reviewer: Ben B.       03-31-2004 Grains are as cheap as dirt. A paleodiet is more expensive to purchase. It promotes health so well, that it turns out much cheaper in the long run.

my thoughts on this diet Reviewer: Dave       03-29-2004 Humans cannot create carbohydrates from fat: we don't have the necessary enzymes. If you eat a sufficiently low carbohydrate diet, your body will cannabalize muscle protein, inefficiently, to produce the sugars that your heart and brain require. In severe starvation, your brain can get some energy from ketones produced from fats but that leads to ketoacidosis.

Humans are no exception Reviewer: John       03-29-2004 "The ideal diet for any animal is that which it eats in the wild. Humans are no exception." "Ask a dietitian how to lose weight and you'll be told to eat bread, corn, soy, cereals etc.. Ask a farmer how to fatten a pig and you'll be told to feed it bread, corn, soy, cereals etc. There is a discrepancy that needs explanation."

There is no single paleolithic diet Reviewer: BB       03-29-2004 There is no single paleolithic diet- just as there is no single Standard Western Diet. Some people have their favourites. Hunter gatherers are at the mercy of the seasons and the environment and have neither refrigeration nor long distance transport. Therefore their diet varies greatly with geography, with time of year and with unpredictable variables. A true Paleolithic diet is one based on what people actually ate in those times. It is open to dispute what they actually ate, and I think this is where you are falling down. A Paleolithic style diet is one based on our beliefs of true Paleolithic diets, adjusted according to modern food preferences and beliefs etc.

Animal Diet Reviewer: Dee       03-29-2004 The ideal diet for any animal is that which it eats in the wild. Humans are no exception.

controversy Reviewer: Markl       03-28-2004 You cannot replace calories from carbohydrate with calories from fat. I believe that is what this diet is all about and it is a bad idea.

Quackery Reviewer: John G.       03-26-2004 Anyone genuinely interested in diet, nutrition, and nutritional supplements should take a strong stand against Nutrition Quackery, Food Faddism, and Nutritional Supplements Quackery anywhere they see it. If you don't, no one will take your interests seriously. Quackery is the promotion of a health claim that doesn't have any basis in published scientific research.

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