The Paleo Diet Cookbook owes its origin to the
resounding international popularity of my first book, The
Paleo Diet. Although it was published several years ago, it
has steadily sold more and more copies over the ensuing
years and has recently risen into the top ten best-selling
diet and health books. Such a sales history for a diet or
health book is almost unheard of, as books of this genre
typically sell like hotcakes when first released but then
rapidly fade into oblivion. I have now thoroughly revised and
updated The Paleo Diet; The Paleo Diet, Revised Edition,
which has just been published, reflects the latest scientific
research and revisions to the diet, as does this cookbook.
The Paleo Diet and The Paleo Diet Cookbook are
different from all other diet books and cookbooks in that
they outline a lifetime program of eating based not upon the
fallible ideas of charismatic diet doctors whose books
eventually wither away, but rather upon our species’
ancestral diet. This is the foundational diet to which we are
all genetically adapted and the diet consumed by every
single human being on the planet a mere 333 generations
ago.
When we restore our diet to the one for which we are
genetically adapted, chronic illnesses and diseases with
obscure or currently unknown causes improve or
completely disappear. For instance, dermatologists once
told us that diet had little or nothing to do with acne. Fast-
forward to 2010, and the best medical and nutritional