As one of the newest and hottest diet trends in the United States, the Paleo diet is essentially a high-protein, low-carb diet based on the speculated diets of our caveman. ancestors. With an emphasis on poultry, lean meats, whole fruits and vegetables, and nuts, but not grains, legumes, dairy, or anything refined or processed, the theory behind the diet is simple. As quoted in an online review by US News & World Report: "If cavemen didn't eat it, neither should you." Since our hunter-gatherer ancestors never had to eat the highly processed, antibiotic- and hormone-rich foods we eat today, they were much healthier, led more active lives, and never suffered from the “disease of civilization”. Many people in the United States and around the world are facing this situation today. So what's really the blame here? According to paleo diet proponents, humans were physically and developmentally on track until the Agricultural Revolution about 10,000 years ago, which spurred widespread grain production and introduced grains and thus "toxins" into the diet. the food chain. Unfortunately, although the paleo diet may seem promising, a recent review of the scientific literature reveals that the paleo diet, in its most extreme versions, is nothing more than a dietary gimmick that relies on heavy restrictions in carbohydrates to achieve weight loss, essentially. just a simple short-term solution that fails to solve longer-term problems. As author Robb Wolf repeatedly points out in his popular book, The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet, "Today's agricultural diets are making us chronically ill." The paleo diet, by forcing us to eat more like our caveman ancestors, fixes all of our harmful, highly processed foods, middle of paper...... y with occasional adjustments from time to time, appears to produce benefits marginal for overall health, promoting a significant reduction in blood sugar, insulin and cholesterol levels. However, the paleo diet is only a short-term quick fix and certainly not for everyone. Anyone can lose weight with a diet, but maintaining that weight loss is usually much easier said than done. It takes not only enormous willpower and dedication, but also incredible faith in the effectiveness of the diet for dieters to continue on their grueling diet and most dieters, regardless of the diet, eventually abandon their weight loss diet. Given that ultimately it makes little difference whether or not we restrict things in our pantry. Perhaps the best diet in the world is simply having, as Julia Child said, "everything in moderation...including moderation »..”