And after: thinking alone. Body getting a bit softy.
The idea of the Paleo diet has been around for decades, but it’s really taken off over the last couple of years. It’s based on the idea that while humans have been eating for approximately 200,000 years, we’ve been farming for only about the last 10,000 or so. Farming introduced easily produced grains into our society, and bread, pasta, and other starch-heavy and processed foods into our diets. Evolution is too slow, the story goes, for us to have adapted to this new diet. So these “new” foods are responsible for many specific health problems we encounter, as well as a general feeling of un-wellness that most of us unwittingly life with. By returning to the diet of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, the proponents of Paleo claim, we can restore our happiness, health, and waistlines.
I had to give it a shot. And you know what? It’s been pretty great. After a few weeks, I’ve lost weight, I feel better, and the two-hour-plus sluggish period that used to follow lunch just about every day is gone. That’s while eating sort of like a pig—meat, vegetables, nuts, eggs, fish, all cooked with butter and scarfed down with gleeful self-contentment. I get hungry less often, and when I do it’s a different sort of hunger; not nagging and brain-debilitating, but more natural-feeling and subtle, almost healthy.
artwork { Kinke Kooi }
