hungry all day long on this diet, because its high protein
content is the best satisfier of the brain’s appetite center. If
you eat a high-protein lunch, you will eat fewer calories not
only at this meal but also at dinner.
By mimicking the diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors
with common everyday foods that you can purchase at your
local supermarket or grow in your own backyard, you’ll be
able to reap the health benefits that are your birthright:
freedom from obesity, vigor, and optimal health throughout
your life span. It is not crucial to exactly duplicate hunter-
gatherer diets. This would be a next-to-impossible task in
our twenty-first-century world, as many of those foods are
no longer in existence, are commercially unavailable, or are
simply unpalatable to our contemporary tastes and cultural
biases.
For instance, hunter-gatherers typically ate the entire
animal—brains, eyeballs, tongue, marrow, liver, kidneys,
intestines, gonads—whereas these organs are
unappetizing to most of us. However, these differences
need not present any nutritional shortcomings in modern-
day versions of our ancestral diet, particularly if we include
seafood, fish, healthy oils, and a wide variety of fruits and
veggies.