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Farming and herding are relatively new in our history. After the last ice age 10,000 years ago, the northern hemisphere became warmer, and became a better climate for agriculture. Ten thousand years seems like a long time, but it’s only a second compared to our 3 million years or so of history. Check out www.paleodocs.com for more information.

In the Paleo Diet, people eat what our ancestors ate: meat, eggs, nuts, all types of seafood, and all types of fruits, vegetables, and tubers (root vegetables). Some anthropologists also believe that prehistoric (pre-agriculture) peoples also ate beans and lentils, but others disagree. The Paleo principle is that sticking with what foods we are able to eat based on our genes will give us the best digestion of our food, and the best assimilation of the valuable nutrients in our food. Check out www.paleodocs.com for more information.

In recent years, the Paleo Diet has become very popular. If you haven’t heard of it, you’ve probably been buried under a bedrock. People on the Paleo diet claim to lose/balance weight, and feel better. Here’s what it’s all about. Our bodies have been evolving for thousands of years. And, for most of those years, we have been eating certain foods. Until recently (a few seconds in the day of humanity) we have not eaten certain foods that now dominate the American diet. Believe it or not, for most of our history we have not herded animals or farmed.  Check out www.paleodocs.com for more information.

How much water is enough? Many doctors say to drink half your body weight in ounces daily (unless you have kidney disease or have been told otherwise by your doctor). So, a 150lb person would drink 75 ounces of water, or just over 9 cups. Any less and he will be dehydrated. Remember to add on more water for exercise, and for caffeine. The rule with caffeine is to drink one glass of water for every glass of caffeinated beverage you drink. Any less and you will be dehydrated, putting you at risk for high blood pressure, headaches, fatigue, dry skin, and wrinkles. Who wants those when there’s a free solution in every building!

Beverage Basics

Still have the craving for sweet tea? No problem. You can have your sweets and eat them, too. Here’s how. Two sweeteners that are ok are stevia and xylitol. Stevia is the Latin name of a small, leafy plant that has incredibly sweet leaves. Just a small amount of stevia can sweeten a whole batch of tea. And, it doesn’t raise blood sugar (meaning it doesn’t cause weight gain). Some people find stevia to have an aftertaste. These people usually don’t like artificially-sweetened diet beverages either, while other people tolerate diet sodas as well as stevia. Xylitol is a naturally-occurring sugar alcohol that has 1/3 of the calories of sugar. That means it causes only 1/3 of the weight gain that sugar causes, and it doesn’t cause tooth decay. In fact, xylitol is used to prevent cavities and sinus infections (when used in a nasal spray).