Paleo Nutrition part 1

The western world as we know it developing and changing at a truely incredible speed. Never before have we had so much convenience in all aspects of our life. Thanks to our modern, technology based lifestyle, the need for physical exertion is at an all time low. The Internet, Motorisation, Automation, Engineering Robots, Computers, Mobile Phones, Public Transport, Electric Hand Tools, Household appliances...the list goes on... all allow us to expend very little energy on a daily basis in order to carry out our daily existence with minimal effort. The impact of this lack of physical exertion has long and deep implications towards our health and acts as a strong argument as to why daily movement and exercise is very important. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY it raises another and perhaps even more important issue......Technology is not only negitively effecting our physical fitness but it is also having dire-consequences on our diet. Has it ever occured to you that the majority of the food us - "westerners" eat these days is first usually unwrapped, opened, defrosted or microwaved? AND it is so far removed (highly refined or processed) from its original plant or animal origins that it is sometimes unrecognisable when compared to its origin? One of my favourite sayings is "we have a stone-age body living in the 21st century" ... this is so much the case in-fact that the human genome has barely changed in the last 10 thousand years. ALERT!!! In the last 20 years our staple Diet and Nutrition has experienced rapid transformation - to which our bodies cannot keep pace or adapt well to. Most people eat a breakfast that comes from a box or packet (cereal or bread), a lunch that is wrapped in refined, highly concentrated grain (more bread) and many dinners that are based around piles of starch rich, grain based refined wheat or similar products (pasta or rice). Historically, since the introduction and sharp increase in the use of these foods in our diet, it is interesting to note that there has also been a sharp rise in the now "household name" metabolic diseases - heart disease, cholesterol issues, high blood pressure, diabetes and many lifestyle related cancers. Stay tuned for part two "Paleo nutrition"