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The Book:
 Neander-thin: A Cave Man's Guide To Nutrition
by Raymond V. Audette and Troy Gilchrist ISBN 0-9646345-1-1
Paleolithic Press, 6009 Laurel Oaks, Dallas TX 75248
$12.00 at Whole Foods Market (the only place I've seen it)
The Theory:
Our bodies were optimized by evolution to function best on a raw foods diet. We evolved over the last 3 million or so years to eat native raw foods. Mankind is amazingly well-adapted to live in nature as a hunter-gatherer. Food was plentiful and the lifestyle was easy. Suddenly, 10,000 years ago we learned how to use fire and later learned agriculture and industrialization. The principal thesis of the neanderthal diet is that these "new foods" that appeared through technology are not good for us and should be avoided. In short:
A natural diet is what is edible when you are naked with a sharp stick.
If you can find it on the ground or pluck it off a bush or kill it with a stick and eat it, then it is probably food that your body has evolved to digest over millions of years and is truly edible. Any food that requires processing, including cooking, to make it edible is not "native" to our system, is not required by our bodies, and is not truly edible. Minimal cooking is recommended to kill bacteria and stuff (especially with meats), however the basic food must be edible raw. I'll refer you to the book above for the details.
Ninety-five percent of all deaths in America (and the rest of the developed world) are the result of immune system disorders. These include: cancers, diabetes, arterial diseases, lupus, colitis, Alzheimer's, endometriosis, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and a slew of others. Obesity, mental illnesses, and some allergies have also been tied to the immune system. The theory is that these "new foods" introduce foreign proteins into our bodies which eventually confuse our immune systems, make our immune systems fight healthy tissues or fail in other ways, and cause the problems listed above. Native peoples almost never have any of these problems until they change their diet.
The Experience:
Dave's Experience:
- Food is digested faster.
- Mood much more stable. No highs and lows. Baseline feeling is happier.
- Mentally alert and steady.
- Lost weight.
- Leaner.
- Muscles more defined with no more excercise than normal.
- More limber.
- Don't crave refined sugar. Actually tastes bad...
- Stool is looser and very consistant. Never too hard or too soft.
- No Gas.
- No emotional attachment to food. (I don't eat when bored or upset)
- Smell of meat cooking in kitchen yanked other housemates away from vegetarianism.
Grog's Experience:
- Back to my high school weight (9th grade?)
- Never mentally exhausted. Have more energy.
- Leaner and stronger - I can see more of my veins.
- Was a vegetarian a year ago, now a third or more of my diet is meat.
- Never tired after eating a big meal.
- In Fall, had strong attraction to high-fat meats and foods.
- In Spring, more attracted to lighter fare: more fruits and vegetables.
- Stool was very soft at first but it adjusted.
- I tried to go back to "normal" foods and had difficulty: felt lousy, constipation, difficulty digesting. I didn't tie these problems to what I ate before I started this diet, when they happened I just thought they were universal and normal, since I had never been off of a normal diet. I think returning can be done more easily if it is approached slowly. Returning to a normal diet does not at all appeal to me, though.
- Haven't been otherwise sick since I started the diet (9 months).
The Diet (This is from the section of the book called the Ten Commandments.)
Never eat:
- Grains: corn, wheat, barley, rye, rice, oats, and all products made from them.
- Beans: all varieties of hard beans, lima beans, green beans, wax beans, peas, peanuts, chocolate, soy, and all of the products made from them.
- Potatoes: all varieties of potatoes and yams, beets, taro, cassave (tapioca), turnips, and the products made from them.
- Dairy: milk, cheese, yogurt, whey, butter, and all of the products made from them - no matter what kind of animal milk was used to produce them.
- Sugar: fructose, sucrose, maltose, dextrose, lactose, corn sweeteners, honey, molasses, and all of the products made from them.
Eat:
- Meats: beef, veal, lamb, pork, venison, chicken, turkey, duck, pheasant, quail, rabbit, all fish, and any other form of meat or meat by-product, such as lard.
- Fruits: apples, cherries, pears, peaches, melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, bananas, avacadoes, plums, citrus fruits, olives, figs, dates, mangos, kiwi, star fruit, pineapple, pomegranites, passion fruit, or any other fruit eaten fresh whenever possible.
- Vegetables: lettuce, cabbage, kohlrabi, kale, rhubarab, cauliflower, flowers, broccoli, asparagus, parsley, herbs, spinach, celery, carrots, onions, mushrooms, greens, and any other part of a plant edible raw.
- Nuts: almonds, walnuts, pecans, Brazil, acorns, hickory nuts, filberts, macademia, and any other that are edible raw.
- Berries: grapes, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, boysenberries, strawberries, and any others edible raw.
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