[quote=SparkMonkey]
Originally Posted by Heather Hayllar
Hate to show my ignorance ................ but just what IS the Paleo diet please?
It's a diet that resembles the types of foods and carb-to-protein ratio that humans evolved with--the types of things we can digest and metabolize most efficiently. It excludes a lot of things that came about with the invention of agriculture which are a regular part of a modern diet. The idea is that agriculture has only been around for about 10,000 years, but humans have been around for millions--so we haven't had enough time in an evolutionary sense to really optimize the use of those foods.
That's quite a feat since the earth has been around for only approximately 6 to 7 thousand years.