So what exactly is a Cave Man Diet….?

Step 1

Fresh Vegetables are an essential part of the Cave Man Diet
Eat fresh not canned or processed vegetables. Vegetables are another source of essential vitamins and minerals.
Beta Carotene in Carrots helps your eyes Lycopene in tomatoes helps your immune system. Vegetables are our number 1 source of water soluble vitamins and fibre to aid digestion.Vegetables also have a slower release sugars and starches which must be converted into sugars to help maintain a more stable blood sugar levels in the body.

Cooked vegetables have reduced levels or these essential nutrients as most people throw them out along with the water. Steamed and stir-fried vegetables are better to help you maintain a healthy diet and steaming helps retain those water soluble vitamins and minerals.The majority of what you should eat for the Cave Man Diet comes from this category. Cave Men ate more in the way of leafy greens than any other vegetable but that Vegetables comprised the majority of their diets so it should comprise the majority of our diets today.

Step 2

Fresh fruits are another essential part of a Cave Man Diet. Eat plenty of fresh fruits especially berries (strawberrys,blueberries,raspberries). These are a great source of natural sugars which take time to be digested and enter the blood stream slower than refined sugars. They are also a natural source of vitamins and some minerals as well as necessary fibre to aid in digestion. This does NOT mean you should eat processed frozen fruits, nor does it mean drinking juices.

1 serving of a fruit is more filling than 1 serving’s worth of juice. You should also be eating more fruits than grains and more vegetables than fruits. It is possible that Cave Men dried fruits to be eaten during the colder winter months for quick energy. The key here is that they would have eaten a variety of fruits in season and then sparingly eaten dried fruits during the winter months.

Step 3

Whole grains are a must when you do have grains with the Cave Man Diet.
Grains – Use whole grains whenever possible. Avoid heavily processed foods and foods containing white flour, bleached or unbleached doesn’t matter if you are to do well on the Cave Man Diet you must avoid processed grains! It is doubtful that Cave Men processed wheat or other grains and it is considered to have been a very small part of their diets.

Step 4

Lean meats.
Since Cave Men had to hunt for their food and their primary meat items were animals that had grown accustomed to being chased down and eaten instead of just grazing there waiting for someone to just come by and take a bite…. the animals had to be lean.
These animals ran for their very lives unlike our modern day livestock. As a result even red meat was healthy then but not as much any longer.

So a modern day Cave Man must instead look for other healthy meat alternatives such as chicken, fish, turkey, eggs and smaller amounts lean cuts of ham or beef. Rabbit if you can find it is a far healthier choice for a table meat than any other lean meat. It is higher in protein and has better nutrition than commercially raised farm animals.
The modern day cave man must be more careful in their meat selections than our cave dwelling cousins did.