Paleo Cookbooks Review
Recently I read a Paleo Cookbook review that explained all the about the hunter gather or caveman (Palaeolithic) way of living. I’ll share with you my thoughts about the book later but first here is some information about some of the benefits of the eating a Paleo diet and how the books came into being.
In a nutshell the Paleo diet is basically eating the best natural healthy foods available and avoiding processed foods and a couple of other modern food stuffs that are known to be bad for your health.
It turns out that our ancestors the caveman may have been on to something and we could all learn a great deal from them about how to eat well and keep fit and healthy.
If you go back in time a few millions years just eating was hard work, you could not just make a call and wait for your food to be delivered or take a vacuum packed TV dinner out of the freezer. Back then everything was either collected or eaten fresh this meant daily picking of berries and nuts by hand, and if you wanted a T-bone steak it would mean travelling many miles, a dangerous hunt and then a long walk home again all without a guarantee of success.
Millions of years of evolution has made humans stronger, faster and more able to adapt, yet this year we will again have record numbers of people who are over weight or obese and we all see more and more people dying of unhealthy diseases.
Cavemen were healthy!
The Paleo cookbook review recommended changing our eating habits back to being more like our healthy forefathers. Don’t worry you won’t need to learn how to track down and catch your next meal, it’s simply learning how to cook with good fresh ingredients.
I am always sceptical when someone who I do not know well recommends something to me and the Paleo Cookbook was like this, that’s why I was so interested to learn more about the diet. Once I understood that eating healthy paleo food was not some new fad diet but something that is based on how the human body had stayed fit and healthy for millions of years, then it was a simple decision for me and I got the book.
I began to try some of the meals and was surprised at how tasty some of the dishes are.
Today the supermarkets make our gathering much easier and we don’t need to grow our own nuts and berries. Plus at my age I would like to think that my dinosaur chasing days are long over, but we can still hunt down that fresh fish or piece of meat rather than settling for something that’s been frozen in a box for months.
It is a little too early for me to declare that I will stick completely to the Paleo diet as I have yet to try most of the recipes. However at the moment I am starting to see some positive results and I think some of the meals taste really great. I will report back here once I have had a chance to eat this way for a while longer. I’m keeping my fingers crossed on this one!
