Introduction

The Paleo Diet Cookbook represents a practical plan

for you and your family to cook and eat the healthiest diet
on the planet—the diet to help you optimize your health and
normalize your weight. The benefits of this lifetime way of
eating are enormous: You will have more energy throughout
the day. You will sleep better. Your mental outlook will
improve, and all indices of your health and well-being will
soar.

The diet is incredibly easy to follow—eat fresh fruits,
fresh veggies, lean meats, and seafood. Stick to the
outside aisles of your supermarket and away from the
center aisles, and you will be 85 percent of the way there.
As you increasingly shun foods made with refined sugars,
grains, vegetable oils, and salt, your palate will respond
positively to the incredible cornucopia of flavors and
textures and wealth of tastes that reside in real foods.
Highly salted, sweetened, and processed foods blunt our
palates to the subtle flavors of nature’s real groceries. With
the Paleo Diet, a fresh strawberry becomes exquisitely
sweet and just right, whereas a fancy chocolate becomes
too sweet—an artificial adulteration of the real thing that
sends your blood sugar rushing up and then down, making
you feel bad in the end.