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Real Food Revolution: Paleolithic Lifestyle?

Posted by Trish Milburn Nov 11 2011, 12:01 am in guest blogger, weight loss

Hello, everyone! Heather Snow here again. So, this month, in my journey to better health, I’ve been doing okay. Have really focused on drinking more water (I have to drink my full 8 cups before I allow myself to drink anything else), I’ve been working on getting in 30 minutes of exercise every day plus trying to get up and walk around at least 5 minutes of every hour that I’m at the computer writing (I’m away from home, so my treadmill desk isn’t an option this month), and I’m working on moving my diet to a more natural, non-processed one. *Note that I say “working on”—haven’t been super successful at that this month. Thankfully, my husband graduates from his masters program in December and will be back in the swing of family things and our lives can return to some sort of normal. Then I can focus more on the lifestyle side of being a healthy writer.

So, after my read through of Skinny Bitch, I knew I wanted to adopt a more vegetarian lifestyle, although not the extreme veganism that they promote. This month, I’ve picked up a couple more books along those lines that I want to read before the new year. The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone and Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr. I’ll let you know in future posts what I think of them. The major success on this front this month is that I’ve convinced my husband that, while he’s not on board for going totally vegetarian, as a family we’re going to be moving that way.

But while looking around at healthy lifestyle things, I came across the Paleolithic lifestyle revolution. Have you guys heard of this? Apparently, it’s gaining in popularity around the world, with some proponents going so far as to go around barefoot, exercise as cavemen would (by lifting boulders, etc.), and some even donating blood regularly in order to mimic the blood loss that they think early hunters would have gone through from injuries hunting their food.

There’s even a new restaurant in Germany that serves nothing but food cavemen would have eaten! At Berlin’s Sauvage restaurant, fare is prepared with no cheese, bread or sugar — essentially only food that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had accessible more than two million years ago, according to Spiegel Online. (This is from a Fox news story. Read more here.

Now that’s a lifestyle change! What do you guys think? A fad? Or do the modern cavemen have something there?

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Michelle Butler says:

November 11, 2011 at 9:59 am

I can do vegetarian meals and maybe even a vegetarian day, but I could never go vegetarian as a lifestyle. I like meat way too much, and it is so filling too.

The restaurant sounds interesting but a bit of a fad – kind of like the raw food restaurants showing up. That said, one of my favorite restaurant experiences was in Athens – a restaurant Emily McKay recommended. It just served food that was around in ancient Greece. So much fun and laughter and delicious food!

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Heather Snow says:

November 13, 2011 at 12:26 pm

Michelle,

That restaurant sounds like so much fun! I do think the caveman restaurant is somewhat of a fad. I look at the pictures and think ‘how on earth would you have minced that stuff so finely with rough cutlery made of stone, eh?”

We aren’t going totally veggie, either. More like 3 veggie days a week for now, I think.

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