Paleolithic diet: low in carbohydrates

No one can deny that before people ate better, healthier and that because there was no stress that there is today, people moved more and enjoyed better health. Much of this is a product of the Paleolithic diet. Reproducing certain conditions that human beings experienced in the Paleolithic, such as diet, exposure to the sun, movements… Generates a state of well-being and health. In a simplified way, the human body has the following system for obtaining energy: -Its fastest resource for energy is “sugar” (carbohydrates). Most people’s diet today is very high in carbohydrates. -The slowest resource is fat, that is why it is so difficult to get rid of it, because if the body demands energy, it will obtain it from where it is fastest, sugar, and since today our diet exceeds the need for carbohydrates, it always tends to have reserves to spend. The problem is that the body can only store a small amount of carbohydrates (the rest is stored as fat). This is because the body was accustomed to living in an environment in which there were very few carbohydrates. Our ancestors ate plants and animals to obtain the nutrients they needed. They also ate much more sporadically, because they did not have a constant supply of food like today. That is why human beings adapted to storing energy in the form of fat to use it in times of scarcity. In this way, currently, most people, by eating excessive amounts of carbohydrates daily, store much more fat than they burn. But this can be changed and maintain an optimal level of body fat by stabilizing the n energy levels. As? By reducing carbohydrate consumption, insulin production is moderated and as such the accumulation of extra fat deposits in the body, also avoiding many of the health problems and diseases with the current lifestyle. When it comes to physical activity, everyone knows what they have to do. You are not asked to be in continuous movement like our ancestors, because it is impossible with the current pace of life, but 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity costs nothing and everyone can do it. As for sun exposure, it helps the synthesis of vitamin D, which in turn helps the absorption and fixation of calcium in our bones. Before there were not the osteoarthritis problems that we have now, and this is one of the many reasons why it is so prevalent today. I know that not everything is our fault, because life evolves and we evolve with it, but we could imitate some actions of our ancestors.