Some call it the Paleolithic diet or Mediterranean diet.
But Cro-Magnon diet has a nice ring to it-don't you think? Chances are you haven't thought much about these early humans, but there is much we can still learn from these creatures that populated Southern Europe to the Mid-East more than 35,000 years ago.
Cro-Magnons are credited with those mysterious cave paintings in France, and their first skeletons were discovered in 1868 in a rock shelter-not even a cave, but the term Caveman was adopted none the less.
A caveman's life was a tough one at best
A caveman's life was a hard-scrabble existence. He lived off the land. Research indicates that his diet was unusual in that it was varied, and he seldom ate the same foods two days in a row. Cro-Magnons were a hearty stock of beings. From their skeletons, paleontologists determined that they were very muscular-having very little body fat. During the summer months they ate grasses and fruits-mostly berries-and in winter they feasted on whatever animal they could find and subdue.
OK-so what's the point here?
So where are we going with this? Well the point is that although it was unintentional, these ancestors of ours regulated their food intake in such a way that they maintained a near-perfect body weight. Is there a lesson to be learned here? You bet there is. My wife and I are living examples of what a controlled eating plan can do for you. Notice that I don't call it a diet!
90 pounds lost between us! In the past year I have lost over 30 pounds and I have yet to count calories. Margie slimmed down from a size 16 to a size 6-so far nearly 60 pounds in all. We were motivated by the fact that Margie was diagnosed as being pre-diabetic. This tough old girl said NO to drugs and insulin therapy (she hates needles). We both are healthier now for making the effort-and in my case-the effort was unintentional (just like the Cro-Magnons), because we didn't fall for some "FAD" diet, since they mostly are doomed to fail. The "Hit or Miss" eating plan. We should write a book!
When we looked at what we had accomplished we discovered that this hit or miss plan for a way to eat was actually helping us.
