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Paleo Breakfasts

Paleo breakfasts may take a little while getting used

to, because they generally are quite different from what you
may be accustomed to. But don’t let these differences
worry you; our Stone Age ancestors’ food choices for
breakfast are exactly what we need in our modern world to
maintain even energy all morning long and reduce our risk
of numerous chronic diseases. Morning meals for our
Paleo ancestors were based on more than two and a half
million years of evolutionary wisdom, and current studies of
hunter-gatherers show that if they ate breakfast at all, it was
typically a little bit of yesterday’s kill.

If you are like most Americans, you are used to a
breakfast that is a high-carbohydrate meal including some
sort of cereal (oatmeal, boxed cereal with milk, bagel,
sweet roll, buttered toast, pancakes, waffles.), with coffee
and fruit juice. The other option for “born in the USA”
breakfasts is a high-fat, stick-to-your-ribs meal consisting
of bacon, sausage, or ham with eggs and hash-brown
potatoes.

Salmon steaks and chicken breasts usually aren’t on very