I’m an Omnivore

This page is intended to show you exactly what I have done, what I am doing, and what I am planning to do. This blog is all about experimenting with diets. The diet I am most interested is the Paleolthic diet.

Paleolithic Diet
The idea behind this diet is that our bodies are very similar to the bodies of our evolutionary ancestors in the Paleolithic Era (2.5 million to 10 thousand years ago). Our species had millions of years to evolve and to adapt to its environment and its food sources. A human 40,000 years ago would have no access to grains, dairy products, refined sugar, processed foods, or supplements. So if you accept the idea that our bodies are virtually the same as his, how could you expect the ideal diet for us to be any different from what he ate? It’s really quite simple. We are living in a world that our bodies are not adapted to live in. We are living lifestyles that our bodies are not expecting us to live. The following is a chart detailing my dietary changes by month.

Before I started this blog, my diet was fairly average. I had no real dietary restrictions and I didn’t usually take supplements. I ate from all the food groups and tried to eat as best as I could.

Diet Chart

*I’m still trying to reduce sugar intake of course.

I think the Paleolithic Diet is pretty close to the ideal diet for a human, but I’m not ready to try it completely. I am slowly transitioning into this and I have several reasons for doing so:

• I believe that doing it gradually will help me stay committed. No one can turn their diet around overnight and expect that to stick.
• By trying to change one thing at a time, it is more of a controlled experiment. I will be able to tell if one change has a huge effect. If I changed several things about my diet at once and it had some effect, there would be no way to pinpoint the cause.
• I live around a lot of people who already think I’m crazy for not eating dairy. Most of my family lives in Wisconsin, which leads the country in cheese production.