Eating like a caveman

Listen to Dave’s Commentary: Eating like a caveman

She knows that it’s been labeled a fad diet and that it sounds like a recipe for a heart attack, but Jess Mulan, a nutritionist at Crossfit in Seattle, says it works for her. It’s called the Paleo Diet.

“The idea behind it is it’s how our ancestors ate, eating primarily animal tissue.”

Otherwise known as meat.

“It’s never been consistently shown that red meat or saturated fat has a direct link to heart disease or increasing cholesterol.”

She sounds like a cholesterol denier, doesn’t she? Yet despite a diet that requires meat and eggs for breakfast, “my cholesterol is really good.”

So she eats beef, turkey, and chicken processed as little as possible, plus nuts, fruits (fresh and raw) and there you have the Paleo Diet. It doesn’t sound like much of a sacrifice, except you must also avoid all grains, all dairy, refined sugar, which means no soda and no dessert unless it’s honey scooped from a beehive.

There’s one other catch; in addition to eating like a caveman, Jess exercises like a caveman.

“I exercise on average between an hour to 24 hours per day.”

And she’s free to fire up the grill and sizzle up a slab of grass fed beef from a happy free range cow. But, like I say, some doctors consider this a fad diet and it may sound absurd to eat like our stone aged ancestors who were lucky to make it to age 30, but at least they didn’t get fat.

And thanks to their shortened life span, their social security system was completely solvent.