The Paleo Diet Cookbook

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honored plant food.


One final recommendation for your pantry: get rid of all
beans, lentils, dried peas, peanuts, and legumes. These
foods were not found in early human diets simply because
they are inedible unless cooked. Humans have been on the
planet for about two and a half million years, but the
controlled use of fire is quite recent: only about three
hundred thousand years old. So our species has had little
evolutionary time to adapt to a family of foods that are
concentrated sources of certain antinutrients (lectins,
phytates, protease inhibitors, and saponins) that increase
intestinal permeability, promote chronic systemic
inflammation, and adversely affect our health.

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