Adkins diet - a caveman theory of weight reduction...or you can eat meat and gain weight

Well, there were a few other things in “the good old days” that we might want to think about—the cavemen hunted to get their meat, which meant exercise.  The cavemen had famines and for long periods couldn’t eat, and the cavemen didn’t have refrigerators to store the meat so when it went bad, it went bad.  If you want to go on a caveman diet, or think that eating one thing will make you lose weight, think again.  The body is designed to store excess food as fat, and the body doesn’t care if those excess calories come from donuts, wooly mammoths, prime rib, tofu, or corn—the body was built to withstand a famine.

Eat a balanced diet - our biology was not designed to eat just meat or just vegetables...

...but to eat a variety of food types.  So were our taste buds.  Give us a single food and we will get sick of it.  Sure, we might have to eat the Wooly Mammoth to survive, but can you imagine the kids in the cave, “Ah come on, dad, Wooly Mammoth again?  Can’t you go get a Saber tooth tiger?”

Okay, imagine living in a cave:

Husband comes home proudly dragging the dead Wooly Mammoth, “Honey, I am home, and brought dinner. Barbecue tonight.”

“Don’t drag that thing in here, I just cleaned the cave.”

“Okay, but help me cut these ribs.”

“Cut your own ribs, I have to feed the children their ribs first.”

Days later.

”Get that old carcass out of here, it smells, and while you are at it stop drawing on the cave wall and get us some more dinner.”

“But honey, that was the biggest one I got, I want to paint this on the cave wall for all to know what a great hunter I am.”

“You will be a hunter without a cave if you don’t get that smelly carcass out of here.  Why can’t you stay home and plant like the other cavemen?  Why do you have to go out and bring these dead animals home?  Grog stays home, he plants, their family eats, and it is easier to throw out grain that is bad than that large ugly animal.”

“But we can keep warm with the skin, and it shows my skill as a hunter, and I can provide for the whole village.  We grow fat on the wooly creature but their crops fail.”

“Speaking of fat, I think it is time you stop eating all that meat and go hunt some gazelles.  At least you will get some exercise.  You must have put on five pounds this week.  And brush your teeth, all four of them.”

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