Article: Why I Eat Like A Caveman

[Wayne Harrison]

Desperate to lose weight, Jimmy Lee Shreeve found that only one diet did the trick; that of Paleolithic man. Bring on the meat

August 14 2007

A few years ago, as I approached 40, I found I couldn't do up the top button of my jeans. Through my twenties and most of my thirties, I'd taken size 32; now, I needed a 36. I was in denial for months.

What stopped this was an unforgiving changing-room mirror. As I stood there without my T-shirt, I was confronted with the harsh reality that I had a spare tyre. There it was; like it or not, I was facing the onset of middle-age spread.


I decided to do something about it. First, I cranked up a serious exercise regime. I jogged every other day and did weights on the days in between, taking Sundays off. Diet-wise, I ate the universally recommended high-carbohydrate, low-fat foods: lots of rice, lentils, pasta, oats, fish, chicken and fruit and veg, but little red meat.


It didn't work. Yes, I felt fitter and was more muscular - but my waistline wasn't going down.


As I was about to give up in despair, I stumbled across the website of Art De Vany (http://www.arthurdevany.com), an economics professor from California. I was dumbfounded. The guy was in his sixties and he looked spectacular. His muscles rippled, but not in the muscle-bound bodybuilder way. What's more, his stomach was flat and he had a genuine six-pack. He put people of 30 and younger to shame.


What was De Vany's secret? For nearly two decades, he'd been eating and exercising as humans did in Paleolithic times - the early Stone Age. He'd come across research suggesting that we should be eating like our hunter-gatherer forebears - lean meat, fish, vegetables, nuts, but no grains, beans or dairy. It had made sense, so he took it up.

<a href="http://www.independent.ie/health/diet-fitness/why-i-eat-like-a-caveman-1058597.html">Full Story</a>

For further information, see http://www.paleodiet.com; http://www.thepaleodiet.com; http://www.evfit.com

[tallgirl]

We should be eating like our hunter-gatherer forebears - lean meat, fish, vegetables, nuts, but no grains, beans or dairy.

i could do this. makes sense to me actually. the carnivore article in the full story was absurd tho. wish they hadnt gone there. only real problem with the caveman diet would be kicking the addiction to kasomorphine(cheese is addictive... no rly). not that i need to go on a diet to lose weight or anything lol. but in any case good find Wayne. :)

interesting that they are calling it the caveman diet. cavemen seem to be in vogue right now... what with the new show out and all. lol

[tallgirl]

only real problem with the caveman diet would be kicking the addiction to kasomorphine(cheese is addictive... no rly).

ok so i realize now that most of you would have an equally hard time giving up ur liquid grains