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I got this in my email from Dr. Al Sears. It makes sense to me, what is your opinion?
Al Sears, MD
12794 Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 16
Wellington, FL 33414 August 2, 2007
Dear Reader,
Why would you want to learn about the caveman?
We’re getting fat and diseased like never before with diabetes rising even faster. Yet the typical approach recommended – eat less meat and fat, and more grains, vegetables, and fruits – has done nothing to curb this trend. In fact, it’s made it worse.
I’ve been writing for years about benefits from the diet of our pre-historic ancestors. This includes building up lean muscle, burning fat, and reducing your risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Now finally others are chiming in…
Scientists in Sweden tested a typical prehistoric diet on people with diabetes. They avoided cereals, dairy products, refined fat, and sugar, which provide most of the calories of the modern diet.1
Over 12 weeks, the researchers compared the “Stone Age” volunteers with people given a Mediterranean diet of whole grain cereals, low fat dairy products, fruit, vegetables and unsaturated fats.
After 12 weeks, the blood sugar peaks dropped 26 percent with the Stone Age diet but only 7 percent with the Mediterranean diet.
And…at the end of the study, all the patients in the prehistoric group had normal blood sugar.
The bottom line is that diabetes is not a lifelong condition you have to live with. You can reverse it by changing your diet. And the focus on blood sugar levels is actually misguided.
Don’t believe that diabetes is a problem of blood sugar level. In fact, high blood sugar levels are a symptom of diabetes, not the root cause. Excess insulin causes diabetes when you eat too much carbohydrate.
Here’s where the “Stone Age” diet comes in. It relies mainly on lean meat, nuts, vegetables, and fish – with minimal carbs. This study showed that, by returning to the basic foods our ancestors relied on to survive, the symptoms of diabetes disappeared – in every case.
This proves what I’ve been saying for years: the USDA food pyramid is worthless. Its focus on grains, carbs, and starchy foods is making us sick. It’s not what we were born to eat.
Farming and grain-based agriculture – the staple of our modern diet – were developed about 10,000 years ago. That’s not a very long time from an evolutionary standpoint.
For millions of years before that, our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived on a diet of meat, wild vegetables, nuts, and berries. They were either predator or prey. They needed the kind of lean muscle that would give them sudden, explosive power.
Their bodies evolved around a diet that gave them the strength, stamina and muscle growth for the hunt. And genetically speaking, your body is 99.998% identical.
So to stay lean and strong – and to avoid obesity and diabetes – all you have to do is adjust your diet to its “caveman” roots. This can be summed up in two simple steps: step up the protein and kick out the carbs.
Eat grass-fed meat, wild fish, and cage-free eggs (to avoid the environmental toxins of modern agriculture and animal husbandry). Instead of potato chips, snack on nuts and berries and skip all cereal and processed foods with added sugar.
So easy a caveman could do it…
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD
Al Sears, MD
12794 Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 16
Wellington, FL 33414 August 2, 2007
Dear Reader,
Why would you want to learn about the caveman?
We’re getting fat and diseased like never before with diabetes rising even faster. Yet the typical approach recommended – eat less meat and fat, and more grains, vegetables, and fruits – has done nothing to curb this trend. In fact, it’s made it worse.
I’ve been writing for years about benefits from the diet of our pre-historic ancestors. This includes building up lean muscle, burning fat, and reducing your risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Now finally others are chiming in…
Scientists in Sweden tested a typical prehistoric diet on people with diabetes. They avoided cereals, dairy products, refined fat, and sugar, which provide most of the calories of the modern diet.1
Over 12 weeks, the researchers compared the “Stone Age” volunteers with people given a Mediterranean diet of whole grain cereals, low fat dairy products, fruit, vegetables and unsaturated fats.
After 12 weeks, the blood sugar peaks dropped 26 percent with the Stone Age diet but only 7 percent with the Mediterranean diet.
And…at the end of the study, all the patients in the prehistoric group had normal blood sugar.
The bottom line is that diabetes is not a lifelong condition you have to live with. You can reverse it by changing your diet. And the focus on blood sugar levels is actually misguided.
Don’t believe that diabetes is a problem of blood sugar level. In fact, high blood sugar levels are a symptom of diabetes, not the root cause. Excess insulin causes diabetes when you eat too much carbohydrate.
Here’s where the “Stone Age” diet comes in. It relies mainly on lean meat, nuts, vegetables, and fish – with minimal carbs. This study showed that, by returning to the basic foods our ancestors relied on to survive, the symptoms of diabetes disappeared – in every case.
This proves what I’ve been saying for years: the USDA food pyramid is worthless. Its focus on grains, carbs, and starchy foods is making us sick. It’s not what we were born to eat.
Farming and grain-based agriculture – the staple of our modern diet – were developed about 10,000 years ago. That’s not a very long time from an evolutionary standpoint.
For millions of years before that, our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived on a diet of meat, wild vegetables, nuts, and berries. They were either predator or prey. They needed the kind of lean muscle that would give them sudden, explosive power.
Their bodies evolved around a diet that gave them the strength, stamina and muscle growth for the hunt. And genetically speaking, your body is 99.998% identical.
So to stay lean and strong – and to avoid obesity and diabetes – all you have to do is adjust your diet to its “caveman” roots. This can be summed up in two simple steps: step up the protein and kick out the carbs.
Eat grass-fed meat, wild fish, and cage-free eggs (to avoid the environmental toxins of modern agriculture and animal husbandry). Instead of potato chips, snack on nuts and berries and skip all cereal and processed foods with added sugar.
So easy a caveman could do it…
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD
