Generations Chiropractic
Wellness Center bases its nutritional recommendations on the
Paleolithic diet associated with the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
The human genome has changed very little since the days of
the hunter-gatherer society, whose robust, nomadic members
subsisted only on raw foods that were edible in the wild like
vegetables, meats, nuts and fruits. Many researchers today
attribute the absence of such illnesses as cancer, heart disease,
attention-deficit disorder and diabetes in the society to the
members' simplistic eating habits.
Genetics varies from one person
to the next by approximately .02%, and the variance accounts
primarily for differences in physical appearance. The biology
and physiology of modern-day humans are, for the most part,
identical to those of their Paleolithic ancestors, but today's
agriculture-dependent lifestyle depends heavily on legumes,
potatoes, grains and processed foods for sustenance.
With thousands of documented studies
and peer-reviewed research articles concerning nutrition and
the contemporary Western diet, the concensus is that high-carbohydrate
diets, hinging on industrialized, processed foods, contribute
to chronic illnesses in individuals and health problems on
a global scale.
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