Hundreds of thousands of years ago human body chemistry evolved to match an environment that changed extremely slowly. In only a few generations we have made enormous changes in that environment and our bodies have not been able to keep up with those changes. The result is an array of chronic diseases and the twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes that threaten the financial stability of our healthcare system.
Fossil evidence makes it clear that Stone Agers were tall and strong, and those few that evaded life's perils for a half-century or more had no evidence of osteoporosis. Present day hunter-gatherers, who live the same lifestyle and who follow the same subsistence pattern, enter the sixth or seventh decade of life with no obesity, no hypertension, no coronary artery disease and no diabetes.
It isn't necessary to revert to a primitive lifestyle in order to maintain or to lose weight and to avoid the so-called age-related diseases. Health Secrets of the Stone Age gives guidelines for a healthy lifestyle that are not difficult, dull or demanding. Strange foods, challenging recipes and expensive potions have no place in this simple, sensible approach to a long, vigorous life.
