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The food pyramid has been the foundation for nutritional advice from health professionals to the average Joe, but is it really he foundation for a healthy diet? The first food pyramid came out in 1992 , with the  simple  advice that people should consume a diet high in complex carbohydrates (bread, cereal, pasta, rice, etc), and low in fats. Soon after the food pyramid was introduced, serious research began showing that the food pyramid was providing  misleading nutritional advice to the  people.

 The truth was, the 1992 food pyramid  over estimated the complexity of the human diet. Even nutritionists knew that good fats, such as  omega3’s (commonly found in fish) where necessary  for good health, yet it still rose to the top of the  pyramid with the recommendation that less is  better for you . The real reason behind this was the concern over high cholesterol, which has been associated with a high risk of coronary heart disease. In order to avoid people developing high cholesterol levels, the advice was to lower their saturated fat intake, found in oils and within the  paleo recipe favourite red meat; the body’s favorite protein, so it also appeared higher up in the food pyramid.

In 1990, research started showing that fat is indeed important for the healthy function of the human body , so in 2005 a new food pyramid was released. The difference within the food pyramid was the promotion of daily exercise, a slight decline in the recommendation of grains and the higher importance placed on including fat within the diet. Additionally , an internet website was designed to  provide a food pyramid recommendation for personal age, sex and exercise levels. Although this provided improvements upon  the previous 1992 food pyramid, it still  gave a high emphasis on the importance of cereals, breads and pasta  and dairy; these two commonly consumed foods are extremely detrimental towards the health and function of the human body.

The paleolithic diet  is basic ; eat what was available to the hunter gatherer. In other words, eat meat ( beef, game, fowl , etc),  seafood , fruits and berries , vegetables, nuts and seeds to create your healthy diet recipes. Research has shown that hunter-gatherers consumed an energy source in a ratio of 65% meat (and fat) and 35%  plants, including berries, fruits and plant roots and leaves .

 These are the foods which the human body has  been created to eat and digest for over fifty thousand years, these food sources are provided to us by mother nature without  the need to cook or process them. Animal meat, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds have been our main food source since  the existence of man , even before  humans knew how to create fire . These are the foods our body  needs, If our bodies where meant to live healthy on a diet full of artificially made sugars and chemicals, then nature would have provided that in our food supply , mother nature didn’t decide to wait thousands of years for our modern technology to be superior enough to alter food sources, for them to suddenly become healthy.

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