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Contestants on Channel 5's Stone Age reality show 10,000 BC are losing more than their tempers and dignity. They are also shedding weight and could be slashing their risk of heart disease, diabetes and many other modern maladies.
The volunteer cavemen and women including the Harding family, far right, may be missing sugar and high-fat fast foods, but the latest research suggests their diet of meat, acorns, rosehips and berries is a lot healthier than it looks.
A study just published in the journal Complete Nutrition reveals that foods which were never eaten by our ancestors, and which in evolutionary terms we have had little time to adapt to, now provide 70 per cent of our daily energy intake.
Dietician Dr Carrie Ruxton believes it is a key factor in the obesity epidemic and rising incidence of so-called diseases of affluence such as heart problems, diabetes and some cancers. It also suggests that some of the latest diet trends such as high protein, low sugar and fats for fuel are not new at all but simply a way to eat for our evolutionary age.
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/558667/Caveman-diet-slash-risk-heart-disease
The volunteer cavemen and women including the Harding family, far right, may be missing sugar and high-fat fast foods, but the latest research suggests their diet of meat, acorns, rosehips and berries is a lot healthier than it looks.
A study just published in the journal Complete Nutrition reveals that foods which were never eaten by our ancestors, and which in evolutionary terms we have had little time to adapt to, now provide 70 per cent of our daily energy intake.
Dietician Dr Carrie Ruxton believes it is a key factor in the obesity epidemic and rising incidence of so-called diseases of affluence such as heart problems, diabetes and some cancers. It also suggests that some of the latest diet trends such as high protein, low sugar and fats for fuel are not new at all but simply a way to eat for our evolutionary age.
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/558667/Caveman-diet-slash-risk-heart-disease