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Adopting a hunter-gatherer-style diet and lifestyle (Paleolithic diet and lifestyle) reduces the risk of chronic degenerative diseases of civilization, including coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and autoimmune diseases.
To reduce the risk of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, shift your diet and lifestyle to mimic preagricultural patterns. This means prioritizing unprocessed foods like meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds, while minimizing or eliminating dairy, cereal grains, refined sugars, and refined vegetable oils. Complement this with regular physical activity, adequate sleep, and sensible sun exposure. The goal is to align your modern environment with your evolutionary biology to prevent chronic inflammation and metabolic dysfunction.
It is therefore proposed that the adoption of diet and lifestyle that mimic the beneficial characteristics of the preagricultural environment is an effective strategy to reduce the risk of chronic degenerative diseases.
Why this rating
The paper is a review relying heavily on observational data from hunter-gatherer populations and theoretical evolutionary mismatches rather than controlled clinical trials.
Source
The western diet and lifestyle and diseases of civilization
Pedro Carrera‐Bastos et al. · Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology · 2011
DOI 10.2147/rrcc.s16919
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