Paleolithic diet

High school (ages 12+)
Food & Cooking

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/paleolithic-diet

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the core food groups?Lean meats, fish, eggs, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds
2. What is the excluded food groups?Dairy, grains, legumes, refined sugars, processed oils, and salt
3. What foods are allowed on the Paleolithic diet?The diet lets you eat vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, lean meats, fish, and eggs. It is like the foods early humans could find in the wild. No dairy, grains, or processed foods.
4. Why do people call it the "caveman diet"?Because it tries to copy the foods that cave people ate a long time ago. It avoids modern foods that were invented later. The idea is to eat like our ancient ancestors.

Paleolithic era: The geological period characterized by the earliest development of stone tools, spanning from approximately 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago.
Evolutionary discordance hypothesis: The theory that modern diseases arise from a mismatch between our evolved biology and modern lifestyles and diets.
Paleoanthropology: The branch of anthropology concerned with the fossil hominids and other human remains.