GENTLEMAN! LIVE LIKE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE

What did people in ancient times eat? My new diet plan started with that question. And the answer was rather obvious, at least in a negative sense. I knew right off what they didn’t eat, almost no refined sugar, for example. While early humans ate a lot of fruit, there were no sugar mills in a primitive village. So the first step was me to cut way back on the sugar I ate. No candy at all, almost no sugared desserts, coffee and tea taken in sweetened.
Soon, my weight was down to 185. That was not low enough though, so I thought more about how our modern diet differs from that of primitive people. I began to learn about why a primitive-type diet is more healthful. My no sugar diet strategy had been based mainly on the idea that sugar was a new food that is out of phase with our very old physical heritage.

What about fat, I thought? There were no dairy cows to yield large amounts of high-fat milk 50,000 years ago. Butter and rich cheese were just not available. Was there lard or fatty beef? Not at all! Most people ate meat of wild animals until fairly recently in our history.
So the next step in my diet plan was to cut out some of the most obvious fatty foods. Skim milk took the place of regular milk. No cream, very little butter. The visible fat around steaks and other meat was cut off and left on my plate. Again, I kept eating enough to feel fully satisfied at every meal. But I just ate much less fat.
Primitive people walked wherever they went, and ran to chase game. What started as a diet idea broadened into an “inner historical program?” More than the choice of food links us to a way of living in tune with our distant past. Sure, we can develop and use our minds in any modern way we want.
So I started to walk more and then to run and to ride a bicycle. It was fun. All that action made me feel good and settled my nerves. But it also made my weight go down even more. The diet of early people was absolutely full of fiber. These people ate a high fiber diet of cactus, nuts, green, berries and other fruit. Occasionally they had meat as well.
The fiber trend was not just another health fashion that happened to be based in the most recent set of nutritional discoveries. I saw it as clearly an important building block of a practical concept of healthful living that had already been tested in my own life, and proved to be enormous use.
That knowledge, that picture of my lifestyle as having clear roots in human history, has made my way of eating and living a lifelong program. People often talk about hard it is to stay on a diet or to keep off weight lost. That is never been hard for me. I decided years ago not to go on a diet, but to change food selections permanently. Doing that has made the program much easier to follow.