CAVE MAN/ WOMAN DIET
In the old days they had no super markets, they had no gardens, they had no farms. We are talking the really old days.

Some people think this is humanity's most natural and healthy diet. As you've seen over these pages, I keep putting out food ideas as alternatives, not givens. This is something to be explored and not turned into dogma. Food is fun and experimenting is fun and trying out non-habitual pathways is fun.

I'll push that, the Feldenkrais Way, as I call it: the way of exploring, and going slower and lifelong learning and transformation and improvement. This I'm clear is good for all. The food thing, is more tentative. What you eat, this is a game that is great to play and to learn.

So anyway, cave people, didn't eat grain. They didn't eat sugar. They didn't eat dairy. They ate meat, fish, nuts, berries, fruits, vegetables, eggs, and insects. Most of the "cave man diet" people don't mention insects, but that was a big part of a primitive diet. Do you want to eat insects? Probably not, though the French eat snails. But that's what the beginning humans ate.

Some people turn this into a raw meat diet, which is an interesting experiment. There's a lot to be said for raw meat and raw milk and raw cheese and raw eggs. I won't give a long exposition here, but all the earlier comments of raw food having all the enzymes necessary for complete digestion of the food, those comments apply to raw meat and eggs and milk.

I personally, like raw milk that has begun to be digested by fermentation, which is either making it into yogurt (add a little yogurt and let it sit at warmish temperatures, in a sunny window or above the fridge) or kefir (same, add kefir and let it make itself), or sour milk (just let the milk sour with age.). I like to add enzymes (see link at side to Enzymes International) to get the milk to not only go toward yogurt or kefir, but to thicken a little towards cheese.

At any rate, if this seems interesting to you, lots of diets, like South Beach or Atkins, point you toward the cave person diet, and if you have diabetes, and you skip the fruit part of the cave person trip, you can do wonders for your health, and some have said, going raw meat will undo diabetes. So, it's all a grand experiment.

Meat without the greasy cooked smell needs a nice sauce to cheer it up, and it's pretty easy, either with soaked seeds, and some veggies like carrots, and whatever spices you love, like ginger, or turmeric, or garlic, or basil, whatever, to make a helluva nice sauce.

Experiment.

Life is good and so are you. Keep learning and discovering.