Diet & Nutrition Articles

Obesity is spreading its wings with each passing day. To overcome this grave problem, people are forever going on diets to lose those extra pounds and they often swear by low-carb diets such as Atkins or South Beach. Till date most of us have tried so many diets still no one can claim which one is the world's best diet? Well, according to an American diet expert, it's neither the South Beach, nor the Atkins diet, but the Caveman diet which is the best and most beneficial fad diet of our time.

Caveman diet refers to going back to ones roots and returning to the kind of food eaten by our earliest ancestors who used to reside in caves and survived on foods like lean meat, vegetables and fruits. The best part about caveman diet is that our bodies are still tuned to processing the kind of food that cavemen ate i.e. food and on the other hand our bodies still finds it difficult to digest dairy or processed foods such as breads, cookies etc.

Caveman diet emphasizes on the belief that excessive intake of carbohydrate leads to weight gain as it increases our insulin and fat storage which leads to various ailments such as obesity, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes. This unique diet plan almost resembles the familiar nutritionists' food pyramid--turned upside down. Though it's a meat-rich diet still it's in many ways healthier than our own regular diet plan. Besides controlling our weight, this unique diet plan can truly benefit our brain.

The caveman diet or Paleolithic diet is based on a very simple concept of eating like our "Stone Age" ancestors as it helps in losing weight and leading a healthier and happier life. The caveman and cavewoman were fed on a radically different diet than most of us are accustomed to. In those days, there was no agriculture so they relied heavily on meat, fish and seafood, berries, vegetables (mostly root vegetables except potatoes which arrived much later) and nuts. Research suggests that the caveman didn't have a longer life but as an early society, they were healthier, taller and stronger as compared to our generation.

So, this diet can be tried out to bring a difference to your weight and appearance.