The diet from 1 million years BC

First, my numbers for today:

• Fasting blood glucose: 113 mg/dl.  Ok, not great. Must have been the sweet potato fries from yesterday
• Weight:  187 1/2 lbs. 
• Exercise:  45 minutes on the bike. 
• Mood:  7.5.  A little bit up, a little bit down. 

Menu:

• Breakfast:  Banana, grapefruit, oatmeal infused with herbal and raisins.  
• Lunch:  Leftovers.
• Dinner:  Leftovers.
• Snacks:  Pretzels. 

A few days ago I was reading an online article about Obamacare, and the comments on the article veered off into a discussion of  individuals being more responsible for their own health, more proactive as we say today.

With or without Obamacare, the general consensus was that many of our ills are self inflicted.  We eat too much, we eat too much of the bad stuff and too little of the good stuff, we drink too much, we smoke too much and we don't exercise enough.  It all has its consequences, little of it good through the years.

Save for the smoking, that was me.

One poster told about his adherence to the paleo diet and the problems this diet was preventing.  He said he was in his 80's and gave full credit to the paleo diet for his good health. As with the other most of the posters on this thread, I had never heard of the paleo diet.

As I understand it this diet posits that we should eat what our paleolithic hunter gatherers ate, mostly grilled lean meats and seafood, fruits, vegetables and nuts.  It's the diet our genes developed around way back when.  No grains and no dairy. It's adherents say it will cure, prevent or at least improve a number of ills and conditions that are potentially diet related, including irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, autism, and multiple sclerosis.
 
Fine and dandy, I say.  If it works for them, that's wonderful.  Maybe it will work for you. You can learn more about here and here. 

I am not sure about that bug feasting bit, though.  It can be considered part of the diet.

I should also note that the Twinkie diet may offer similar results. Bugs optional.


Maybe the diet explains why these cave women looked so good .







Okay, this partly is just a cheesy reason to run this 1 Million Years BC/Raquel Welch video. 

Wow, two guilty pleasures in one post, 1 Million Years BC and the Twinkie diet.