Eat Like A Caveman For A Healthy Heart

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-8-2008 | Kate Devlin

[blam]

Eat like a caveman for a healthy heart

By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Last Updated: 8:28PM BST 08/05/2008

A “caveman diet” of berries, nuts, lean meat and fish could help reduce the risk of developing heart disease, a new study shows.

Scientists found that volunteers who ate the stone age fare for just three weeks had lowered blood pressure and a reduced risk of clots.

They also lost an average of five pounds in weight.

Meat, as long as it is lean, is beneficial

Our early ancestors lived on a diet lacking in cereals, dairy products and refined sugar for centuries before farming developed and some scientists believe that the human body is still best suited to this kind of food.

Volunteers in the trial, run by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, were allowed to eat only foods from a prescribed list, which included fresh or frozen fruit, berries or vegetables, lean meat, unsalted fish, canned tomatoes, lemon or lime juice, spices and coffee or tea without milk or sugar, for three weeks.

All dairy products were banned as well as beans, salt, peanuts, pasta or rice, sausages, alcohol, sugar and fruit juice.

However, participants were allowed up to two potatoes a day.

They were also given some dried fruit, cured meats and a portion of fatty meat as a weekly treat.

After three weeks, the 14 volunteers who completed the study had lost an average of five pounds, the findings, published in the current issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, show.

Systolic blood pressure, the higher of the two readings taken, had fallen by an average of just under 5 per cent, while levels of a clotting agent in the blood, which can cause heart attacks and strokes, dropped by 72 per cent.

Dr Per Wandell, who led the study, said that the research proved that even short term use of the diet had “favourable effects” on the major risk factors for heart disease.

However, he warned that the lack of certain foodstuffs could have other impacts on overall health.

“One negative effect was the decreased intake of calcium (from dairy goods),” he said, “which could be a risk factor for osteoporosis later in life.”

Heart disease is one of the leading killers in Britain. Every year approximately 117,000 deaths in the UK are caused by heart disease, accounting for approximately one in five of all deaths in men and one in six deaths in women.

Previous studies have suggested that the “caveman” diet could offer protection against diabetes.

[sushiman]

No alcohol ? Forget it !

[dalebert]

they also had many other diseases and very bad teeth.

[peggybac]

I had a heart scan a few weeks ago and the counselor said the diet they recommend is the hunter and gatherer diet. Basically the same thing.

[aruanan]

Heart disease is one of the leading killers in Britain. Every year approximately 117,000 deaths in the UK are caused by heart disease, accounting for approximately one in five of all deaths in men and one in six deaths in women.

News flash. Those who don't die of heart disease will die of something else.

[SkyDancer]

No Big Mac? Forget it.

[blam]

First Americans Thrived On Seaweed

[Enchante]

If I eat like a caveman do I get to behave like a caveman too?

[thefactor]

wasn’t their life expectancy, like, 20 years or something? that many saber toothed tigers gobbling them up?

[infantrywhooah]

I prefer to eat like these cavemen. Roast duck with the mango salsa.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I thought we were meant to find and eat mastodons.

[goodnesswins]

“One negative effect was the decreased intake of calcium (from dairy goods),” he said, “which could be a risk factor for osteoporosis later in life.”

I call BS....you do NOT need "dairy goods" to have strong bones.....I'm a perfect example.....You DO need Vitamin D and activity....The Dairy Industry must give out money to authors who stick that in their articles.

[KC Burke]

Okay. Take that toilet paper and give it to your neighbor you won’t be needing it.

[thefactor]

"dude, i'm just living the dream baby!"

[Lee N. Field]

It's called the paleolithic diet.

[infantrywhooah]

According to John F'n Kerry:

[agooga]

I don’t have to eat like a caveman— I AM a caveman. At least that’s what my wife says.

[Enterprise]

PIf I eat like a caveman do I get to behave like a caveman too?"

Absolutely. If you eat like a caveman you will have sex like a caveman.

[oneamericanvoice]

Sadly, the mammoth is extinct, and they won’t let us hunt elephants.

It’s funny that this study used coffee and tea. I didn’t know that Og was a caffeine fiend. Of course, maybe that’s why he was able to run down those mammoths.

[Southerngl]

Or a scotsman. Lots of oats.

[oneamericanvoice]

BRILLIANT! WELL DONE!

[Perdogg]

Eat like a caveman, get a cavewoman.....

[oneamericanvoice]

But if I eat according to this diet will I get the body hair and one eyebrow look....

Is this before or after the discovery of fire? Guess it doesn’t matter cuz I like mine “rare”.

[crazyhorse691]

allowed to eat only foods from a prescribed list, which included ....................................................., canned tomatoes,

[jetson]

Real men eat the three B’s. Bourbon, bread and beer.

[Sacajaweau]

How close is it to the Atkins diet?

[HungarianGypsy]

**FREEPER KITCHEN PING**

No one-- and I mean NO ONE is allowed to take away my cheese.

[crazyhorse691]

I meant to comment on my prior post about the availability of canned tomatoes at the local caveman's grocery store, but, my wifes version of a saber toothed tiger(6 wk. old kitten)climbed up my back with all them needles out and I lost my way...think I will grab some alcohol for some internal first aid.

[svcw]

Big deal. What good did it do them really, they are all dead.

[Paradox]

Old news to some of us, but I guess the research is finally catching up to the theory.

[irishtenor]

I have used that method for years.

[Bobkk47]

they also had many other diseases and very bad teeth.

Actually their teeth were usually in good condition, due to the lack of sugar in their diet. But they had gum disease because dental hygiene was virtually non-existant.

[HungarianGypsy]

All I know is whatever dairy has in it is something I need. No dairy or no meat makes me cranky. I have to have both.

[dalebert]

thanks for the info.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I know I’m much healthier for MARRYING a Caveman. Does that count? LOL!

[Paul Heinzman]

Meat, as long as it is lean, is beneficial

Ladies, discuss amongst yourselves.

[Paul Heinzman]

Volunteers in the trial, run by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, were allowed to eat only foods from a prescribed list, which included fresh or frozen fruit, berries or vegetables, lean meat, unsalted fish, canned tomatoes, lemon or lime juice, spices and coffee or tea without milk or sugar, for three weeks.

What kind of Swedish study is this? No Lutefisk?

[goodnesswins]

Well...I DO believe in individual differences....I must have come from the area of the world where dairy was never available....but, mostly I’m talking about MILK, not cheese....LOL.

[mysterio]

I would think much of the benefit of the real caveman diet came from actively hunting the food.

[mysterio]

wasn’t their life expectancy, like, 20 years or something? that many saber toothed tigers gobbling them up?

I think it was closer to 40. No medicine, remember.

[Smokin' Joe]

Just more justification for the life of paleolithic squalor envisioned for the surviving masses by our dirt-worshipping uber-environmentalist overlord wannabes?

Gaia would be pleased...

(/sarc (8^D) )

[fanfan]

On this diet, I would lose 5 pounds in 3 days.

Are they nuts?

[thefactor]

oh yeah. and if you broke a leg forget about it! you were tiger food.

[fanfan]

News flash. Those who don't die of heart disease will die of something else.

It's worse than you think.....

So far almost every human who has consumed Dihydrogen monoxide has died. The governments won't tell us about it, and the CDC is quiet on the subject, but more and more of us are realizing the risk, and making a plan.

[processing please hold]

On this diet, I would lose 5 pounds in 3 days.

Water! As many diets as I've been own I lost enough water to fill the Hoover Dam reservoir. I keep my water now, I'm gonna give it to the Freemen when I die.

[fanfan]

LOL!

See the link at #44.
It must be controlled, only until it can be banned.

;-)

[processing please hold]

They sound like wackos.

excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte

I sweat excessively! I urinate! I'm bloated! Oh Noooooo, I have it.

Or else it could be. The change made me sweat excessively. I urinate because I'm hydrated - what goes in must come out. My bloated feeling could be because we just finished eating supper not to long ago and I ate like a pig-as usual.

[processing please hold]

That should have been Freman, not freemen.

[Fractal Trader]

The lean meat part is wrong. Whenever an aboriginal gets a chance, he goes for the fattiest protein - especially liver!

[uglybiker]

You must geve me BEEF!poweredbysatan.com