'Hunter Gathers' diet against the Obesity
People on a diet of high protein and plenty of vegetables show startling health improvements, including weight loss without exercising profusely and lower blood pressure. It is the diet of our caveman ancestors thousands of years ago who were what is called "Hunter Gathers".
Researchers say that the constant physical activity that cavemen had to undertake to hunt and find food, not to mention cutting up animals or pounding grains or root vegetables to make the edible, using only very basic tools, kept them fit, lean, muscular and active. Their diet consisted of large amounts of lean meat, and basic vegetables. Fruits would have been highly seasonable and salt, pure sugar, and large amounts of carbohydrates in their diets pretty much impossible.
Even despite this that today we consume whatever and whenever we want, and generally speaking the food is heavily processed and high in sugar and salt compared to anything natural our ancestors would have eaten.
It doesn’t mean that the causes of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer are poor diet. However, researchers at University of California San Francisco tested out the diet on volunteers.
On the tests people who were unhealthy in one way or another were given a specific diet of lean meat, fish, fresh fruits and vegetables. The diet includes only healthy fats, such as those in nuts and seeds, as a caveman faced with an entire carcass and no refrigerator would have been likely to go only for the best cuts in as much quantity as he could physically eat before the meat went rotten or attracted scavengers or predators.
Results showed that everyone's blood pressure went down. In two weeks everybody's cholesterol and triglycerides got better and the average drop was 30 points. That's the kind of drop you get by taking Statins for six months.
Doctors said that people on the diet have experienced a regression of their diabetes as a result, to the point they are effectively cured.
Comments
(0)