Eat to Live?

So...what does it mean to eat to live anyways? Ann Wigmore said that, "the food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison." When I began researching the Paleo diet, I was amazed at the effects the food I was consuming was having on my body. I'll share more of my personal testimony another time, but for now, I'd like to give you a brief explanation of what Paleo is all about.

The Paleo Diet is based upon eating wholesome, contemporary foods from the food groups our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have thrived on during the Paleolithic era, the time period from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the agricultural revolution, about 10,000 years ago. These foods include fresh meats (preferably grass-produced or free-ranging beef, pork, lamb, poultry, and game meat, if you can get it), fish, seafood, fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and healthful oils (olive, coconut, avocado, macadamia, walnut and flaxseed). Dairy products, cereal grains, legumes, refined sugars and processed foods were not part of our ancestral menu. I learned everything that I know about Paleo from Robb Wolf and Dallas & Melissa Hartwig. I highly recommend checking out their sites to learn about the science behind why the Paleo Diet is so vital to fueling your body properly.

Below are a few of the MANY health benefits that you can expect on the Paleo Diet(and by diet I mean way of eating, not a temporary fix to lose weight).