Diet

The paleolithic diet is based on the primordial diet of our ancestors. This diet assumes that everything that our distant ancestors could pick or catch with a spear and everything that is raw to eat, is healthy for humans. Cereals such as rice and wheat are not edible raw. Cows were not originally milked (cattle were only killed to eat their meat). Beans and legumes contain raw too many lectins (these are poisonous proteins that are broken down at high temperatures). Nuts and seeds were abundant. Sugar was not yet known (only natural sugars in fruits, berries, etc.). The diet ensures a good balance between acids and bases, so that nutrients are optimally absorbed and minerals are minimally extracted from the body. With this diet you can not only lower high cholesterol in ten days and thus prevent cardiovascular disease, it works preventively against all contemporary Western civilization diseases, such as diabetes, obesity and cancer.

General guidelines:

• No sugar (no refined sugars)
• No grain products and no rice
• No dairy products
• No beans and legumes, but nuts and seeds
• A lot of fruit and vegetables
• In moderation fish and meat
• Very little salt

In this diet the ratio between proteins, good fats (a lot) and carbohydrates (little) is about 40:40:20. It provides an improved balance between omega 6 and omega 3 and an improved acid balance (it is a predominantly basic diet).