It is also known as the Paleolithic diet, evolutionary diet, or the caveman diet and has both staunch defenders and tough enemies. Basically it is about feeding in the most similar way possible to our Paleolithic ancestors more than 10,000 years ago.
Those who defend it are based on the fact that the human being, having spent more than two million years (during the Paleolithic) feeding in one way, we are genetically prepared to better digest these foods.
In essence, those who practice this increasingly fashionable diet do not consume processed foods such as canned foods, industrially processed products, and so on. But in addition, they are also broadly prohibited from consuming cereals and other sugars, dairy products and legumes. This means that their diet is essentially based on red and white meats, fish, shellfish, eggs, nuts, vegetables, fruits, and so on. Of course, all raw.
There are still no conclusive scientific studies, but the risks of not ingesting some products or consuming others in excess are more than evident. For this reason, some specialists in the field have sounded the alarm against this new culinary trend that can, for example, increase cardiovascular risk in case of excessively increasing the consumption of red meat.
