Dear Mr. Alec Baldwin,

I hope that you received our first invitation to The Paleo Garden Party. Just in case it got lost in the mail, please allow me to send you this second invitation.

In the paleo garden not so long ago, 100% of humanity only ate meat, fruits and vegetables.

In a standard American diet an average of 55% of caloric intake is from carbohydrates. For thousands of millennia, the human diet consisted of 30-40% carbohydrate with the rest being fat and protein. And of that 30-40% carbohydrate from our diet that we did eat 10,000 years ago and earlier, it was mostly fruits and vegetables with very low carbohydrate content.  There are American households, and I’m sure you’ve seen them, where probably 80-90% of their diet is sugar, grains, and starch which means 90% is carbs.

So, here in the “modern” world we have significantly increased carbohydrate intake, while at the same time hardly eating any fruits and vegetables. So, if 10,000 years ago and earlier early humans’ caloric intake consisted of 30% carbohydrate from fruits and vegetables, but now for some carbohydrate intake is 90% and very little fruits and vegetables are eaten, how is this possible?

-Sugar and sugar water (soda, juice, energy drinks, coffee/tea with heaps of sugar)

-Processed food consisting of:

1. Corn (and in liquid form, High Fructose Corn Syrup)

2. Rice

3. Potatoes

4.  Wheat

How much of these foods did we eat before the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago?

Zip. Nado. Zero.

Our diet for millions of years consisted of just meat, fruits, vegetables, and fresh water. That’s what we ate, that’s what we evolved to eat.

I was in the supermarket and family after family had loaded on their shopping carts, cases and cases of sugar water: soda, juices, flavored teas, energy drinks bursting with sugar. Boxes of carb-loaded pastas, snacks, etc. If indeed the average is 55% caloric intake from carbohydrates, you can be sure that half that carbohydrate intake didn’t come from leafy vegetables and fruits. No way. The caloric intake is all from sugary products and/or flour-potato-corn-rice products laden with sugar and high fructose corn syrup.

A new health movement is growing based on research on the evolutionary diet. Folks in this community are a diverse lot. We’d also invite you to take a look at some of the “everyday” men and women who are following this evolutionary diet:

-Son of Grok
-Free the Animal
-Jimmy Moore’s Livin the Vida Low Carb
-Theory To Practice

Again, thank you for your consideration of this invitation, we hope to see you at the garden party. The favor of an RSVP is requested.

Sincerely,

The Paleo Garden  

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