Chapter 2 foreword

On April 17, 2000, at 1:30 in the afternoon, at the cafe I frequented most in Provence in the south of France, the open-air cafe was full of sunshine. I just enjoyed a plate of carrot beef and a refreshing drink Rose wine, sipping an espresso.Dieting is an unfortunate word, but I can't get it out of my mind.Few other concepts appear so frequently, yet are consistently misunderstood and misused, as this word.Few of the millions of obsessive dieters know the original meaning of the word diet.The concept is derived from the ancient Greek word diaita, which originally referred to living and eating habits.

In my previous books, I have been encouraging readers to never diet again, to say goodbye to dieting, and to live happily ever after.In these books, I adopt the concept of dieting that is generally understood today, that is, self-restraint in eating, giving up enjoyment, resigning from pain, and eating flour, grass, and even sawdust, just like various magical recipes. like In this book, we should once again understand dieting comprehensively and correctly, as a way of life with relative eating habits.The diet of the Stone Age mentioned here is not a general eating habit or a diet touted by the media, but a specific life and eating habit, which was developed and formed by human beings during millions of years of evolution.

Today, we pursue the quality of life, and physical labor is a thing of the past.Heavy tasks in the workplace are just a click of the mouse, and housework can be easily solved by pressing a few buttons or using the remote control.If it doesn't work, ask someone else to do it for you.Wealth also means realizing the ancient dream of human beings, constantly eating hearty food boiled, fried, fried, sour, sweet, salty, spicy, delicate and delicate.Quick-witted people come up with food that caters to the latest lifestyle.Trendy food is the future of the huge food industry.The dream of Paradise has finally become a reality.We live in an industrial society where milk and honey flow everywhere.The air is filled with the aroma of roasted squab, we just need to reach out, if even this effort is too much, we can also flick our fingers, and someone will come to serve.

Now, the fatal consequences of misfortune can be seen everywhere: the fat on the cheeks, the potbellied, the bucket-like figure, and the atrophied muscles are the common problems of modern pampered people.As affluence rises, the number of people suffering from metabolic diseases soars.Problems with fat and sugar metabolism appear in younger and younger people.The number of people with type 2 diabetes is growing alarmingly around the world, especially among young people, with the result that, without warning, younger and younger people are dying of myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular infarction or fatal cancer.But it's also becoming clearer: it's a direct consequence of the way we live and eat today.In fact, we are turning the dream of luxury and affluence into a nightmare of disease and health crises.

Why can't our bodies handle this rich heavenly world?Is the human body just not built for a comfortable life?Which ways of life are in line with our nature?What would happen if we unlocked our genetic code?Correctly answering these core nutritional questions allows us to go a step further in explaining how to achieve and maintain ideal health. To understand this, a very important step is to first study the lives of our ancestors.Because genes, that is, the structural blueprint of the human body today, were formed during the evolution of hundreds of millions of years.Significant genetic adaptations and changes often take millions of years as environmental and living conditions change.If we can know how our ancestors ate food in the past one or two million years, we can clearly understand from a genetic point of view what is a healthy diet for modern humans, and Mother Nature What food was given to us in our infancy.

In the late 1980s, American scientists raised the topic of food intake in the Stone Age and provided much material for discussion.Years later, it turned out that some serious, almost incomprehensible mistakes were made in the research at the time.In the late 1990s, Loren of the University of ColoradoProfessor Loren Cordain and colleagues conducted a comprehensive and rigorous reassessment of the Stone Age diet.The research results published in early 2000 caused quite a shock in the academic circle.Human primitive food and the purely natural state of food intake in hunting and gathering societies, that is, the optimal food intake formed by humans in the course of evolution to adapt to the environment, are far from what scientists have imagined so far.In fact, these latest research results run counter to the established nutrition theory.

Thanks to my good personal relationship, I have been able to keep track of how those researchers in Colorado have made their amazing discoveries to the world in recent years.Having been critical of many of the glaring fallacies and ludicrous dogmas of traditional nutrition for many years, it was only natural to approach this provocative subject.I consulted hundreds of studies, old and new, and compared extracts.It turns out that the research data on Stone Age food and the latest metabolism research results are surprisingly consistent. Here, I have revealed the most important of many surprising insights, that we can today adopt this Stone Age diet that is characteristic of the human species, and is effective against many dangerous diseases and metabolic disorders.

Dear readers, pick up the big stick and hunt the ancient giant elephant! Nicolai.Walm In the spring of 2000 in southern France Note: I would like to make it clear to my colleagues that this book does not present the subject in an exhaustive and systematic way to draw conclusions like a scientific research paper does, and that it is not possible to draw conclusions due to lack of current knowledge.This book adopts the standpoint of scientific inference, and wants to achieve a goal: to spark discussions in a distorted and rigid field, to break some obstinate concepts, and to wake up some obstinate people.That's already an achievement, isn't it?