Super Health Secrets - Evolutionary Fitness Or is Modern Life Just Plain Bad For You?
Ever thought that most diet books were just making stuff up as they went along? Secretly thought that aerobics and jogging were just some sadistic joke? Well you're right! What's missing from much diet and training advice is an overall model that makes sense practically and biologically.
You are, biologically speaking, a homo sapiens, a 40,000 year old evolutionary model, with a genetic predisposition to move, eat and behave in certain ways.
If you act in harmony with this blueprint you get health and well being, and acting against it makes you sick, tired and stressed.
Humans aren't physically designed for most modern food products, many of which have been invented in the last 30 years, or the general lifestyle of overwork, lack of movement and stress.
So what should you do instead? Here's some quick rules of thumb for eating: If you could have found, foraged, caught or hunted it naked with a stick and maybe a few of your similarly attired hunting buddies it's fair game.
This means your diet is largely based on protein and produce.
Tons of veggies, fruit, good quality meats and seafood.
Any berries, seeds, nuts, fungi, greens and sea veggies.
Notice how this type of food is what most people would identify as a healthy diet already? If it comes in a box, jar, tin or contains unpronounceable ingredients it's probably a food product.
Generally avoid.
Doing this naturally eliminates virtually all known allergens (like wheat, gluten, and non-human dairy), fattening starches (generally only found in large quantities in modern baked foods), excess sugars (again, usually only found in man made food) and novel toxins like transfats.
Quick rules of thumb for movement: Mix varied high intensity output combined with ample leisurely walking around.
This means train hard and briefly a couple of times a week at semi-random intervals and do some leisurely active play the rest.
Mix up varied and novel exercise to keep your body guessing and focus on strength training first.
Quick rules of thumb for lifestyle: Relax more, sleep more, socialise more and work less.
Most hunter gatherer cultures exhibit pulsate 'work' patterns.
The 9-5 (or increasingly more common 8-6+) idea is derived from the factory work mentality of the industrial revolution.
Many hunter gatherer cultures spend a couple of hours a day collecting food and the rest doing more interesting things.
Ask yourself this - if you had a heart attack this afternoon and HAD to operate your job, business and life on 30m a day at the most, or risk a fatal heart attack, how would you do it?
You are, biologically speaking, a homo sapiens, a 40,000 year old evolutionary model, with a genetic predisposition to move, eat and behave in certain ways.
If you act in harmony with this blueprint you get health and well being, and acting against it makes you sick, tired and stressed.
Humans aren't physically designed for most modern food products, many of which have been invented in the last 30 years, or the general lifestyle of overwork, lack of movement and stress.
So what should you do instead? Here's some quick rules of thumb for eating: If you could have found, foraged, caught or hunted it naked with a stick and maybe a few of your similarly attired hunting buddies it's fair game.
This means your diet is largely based on protein and produce.
Tons of veggies, fruit, good quality meats and seafood.
Any berries, seeds, nuts, fungi, greens and sea veggies.
Notice how this type of food is what most people would identify as a healthy diet already? If it comes in a box, jar, tin or contains unpronounceable ingredients it's probably a food product.
Generally avoid.
Doing this naturally eliminates virtually all known allergens (like wheat, gluten, and non-human dairy), fattening starches (generally only found in large quantities in modern baked foods), excess sugars (again, usually only found in man made food) and novel toxins like transfats.
Quick rules of thumb for movement: Mix varied high intensity output combined with ample leisurely walking around.
This means train hard and briefly a couple of times a week at semi-random intervals and do some leisurely active play the rest.
Mix up varied and novel exercise to keep your body guessing and focus on strength training first.
Quick rules of thumb for lifestyle: Relax more, sleep more, socialise more and work less.
Most hunter gatherer cultures exhibit pulsate 'work' patterns.
The 9-5 (or increasingly more common 8-6+) idea is derived from the factory work mentality of the industrial revolution.
Many hunter gatherer cultures spend a couple of hours a day collecting food and the rest doing more interesting things.
Ask yourself this - if you had a heart attack this afternoon and HAD to operate your job, business and life on 30m a day at the most, or risk a fatal heart attack, how would you do it?