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It may be trendy today, but the general concept behind the Paleo diet dates back to the 1970s, when gastroenterologist Walter Voegtlin noted that our hunter-gatherer ancestors who subsisted on lean meat, leafy greens, nuts, and berries knew what they were doing. And in 1985, S. Boyd Eaton, MD, of Emory University, expanded on the idea in an article in the
New England Journal of Medicine, which sparked renewed interest in the diets of our ancient ancestors.
Also known as the Caveman or Stone age Diet, Paleo is based on the presumed diet of our ancestors in the Paleolithic era, essentially foods that could be found by hunting and gathering. When farming practices began, grains, legumes, and dairy quickly became staples of the human diet. But as the Paleo theory goes, our bodies aren’t designed to eat foods that emerged from farming practices, and this genetic mismatch contributes to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other modern
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When meat was scarce in the early weeks of the pandemic, home cooks adapted by seeking out new recipes, new proteins and new sources of ingredients. Once the supply chain caught up with demand, plenty of shoppers were still in the habit of buying up more than they needed to add to the growing stash of food stored in the freezer.
One thing that I ve learned as one of those shoppers is that keeping a closer inventory of the food in my house means using it. When I buy groceries and forget about them in the back of the freezer or pantry, it s more likely that by the time I discover them, they ll be damaged by frostbite or pests. (I had pantry moths once, and that caused a big enough headache for me to learn the lesson about not keeping flour around too long.)
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