June 16,2005

The Evolution Diet is a revolutionary way of looking at what you eat. It encourages you to get more in touch with your bodies and know how they were designed to eat. When this happens, you will eat the types of foods you would without the influences of culture and regain the ideal weight you may have lost previously and you will live a happier, healthier life all around.

The amazing thing about the Evolution Diet is that it is a consistent plan for eating throughout your life. While most other diets start you off with a “shock-your-system” introduction followed by eating in moderation, the Evolution Diet calls for one method of eating, which reflects your personal lifestyle and can support you through activity or inactivity.

The goal is to imitate the diet of natural humans (or, as referred to later Natural Man) in order to fit the diet our bodies have been designed to take. Regardless of how you think our species was designed, we are made to eat certain things and in a certain way. Natural Man (without present culture) had been around 500 times longer than Cultural Man and our overly efficient foods. During all that time, Natural Man developed a way to eat based on his surroundings and environment, which varies only slightly outside of the arctic circle. In essence, Natural Man evolved to eat a certain way.

He ate small quantities of low sugar, high fiber foods throughout the day until he hunted and subsequently gorged himself of mass quantities of nutritious meat. This simplified version of the subsistence hunter-gatherer shows a rough expectation of the foods our bodies are expecting us to feed it. If we don’t feed it that diet, it reacts adversely with the conditions listed above.

If you enjoy eating, and most of us do, then you will enjoy this method. Most people eat more on this diet than they did before, yet they achieve their ideal weight and keep it off. A simple idea one must realize, however, is that eating is enjoyable on a number of levels, but the reason it’s enjoyable is because it helps us survive. We like to eat because it was originally good for us.

Besides eating, we humans can entertain ourselves quite thoroughly. We can play games, sing, write poetry, build Channel Tunnels and Hoover Dams, and most importantly, we can educate our young. Eating should be seen as a means to do all of those other things instead of the ends at which those things brought us. Eating should make our bodies happy, and, in turn, make our minds happy.
The Evolution Diet takes our current modern foods and puts them into a method of eating which makes our bodies happy. This book will get you to that place.

I will describe what we are made of physically, which will give us clues as to what we should be eating. Then I will take a lighter, and often unappetizing look at why we eat what we do, and what a culture-less person would eat. It is vital for us to understand what goes on in our bodies, at least to some extent, so I will then describe our bodies’ chemistry and how it reacts to the main food types: carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

With all of the background information down, I will describe, in depth, the Evolution Diet, and what exactly you should be eating and how you should be eating to match your modern lifestyle, but more importantly, to match how you were designed to eat. The results will be evident in your life, but I will give you things to look for in the last chapter. First, though, I would like to contest the current notion of diet and explain what a diet really should be seen as.