What to Toss from the Refrigerator
Now that you have tossed the unhealthy foods from your
pantry, let’s take time to explore your fridge and see the
lurking food dangers herein. Like most people living in the
United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, and other
Westernized societies, your fridge probably contains a few
bottles or cartons of pasteurized homogenized milk from
your local store or dairy, some yogurt, a few sticks of butter,
and a variety of cheeses, to say nothing of frozen dairy
foods (such as ice cream, ice milk, and frozen yogurt).
Although these foods constitute about 10 percent of the
calories in the typical U.S. diet, they were entirely absent
from our Stone Age ancestors’ menu. X-ray studies of
dairy-free hunter-gatherer skeletons show these people
had healthy, robust bones free of osteoporosis. If you get
sufficient fresh fruits and veggies (around 35 percent of
your calories) in your contemporary Paleo Diet and just a
little sunlight, calcium and dairy products become a
nonissue.
Your refrigerator also probably contains a variety of non-
Paleo processed foods, which could never have composed
even a small percentage of humanity’s original diet. For
instance,frozen concentrated juices such as lemonade,