Caveman Diet

This afternoon I have been thinking about
the caveman diet, and wondering whether it would be beneficial, mid-life crisis-wise. On the one hand, I buy into this theory that we evolved to eat certain foods and are poorly adapted to certain other foods.

"The essentials of the Paleolithic Diet are:
Eat none of the following:
· Grains- including bread, pasta, noodles
· Beans- including string beans, kidney beans, lentils, peanuts, snow-peas and peas
· Potatoes
· Dairy products
· Sugar
· Salt
Eat the following:
· Meat, chicken and fish
· Eggs
· Fruit
· Vegetables (especially root vegetables, but definitely not including potatoes or sweet potatoes)
· Nuts, eg. walnuts, brazil nuts, macadamia, almond. Do not eat peanuts (a bean) or cashews (a family of their own)
· Berries- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc.
 Try to increase your intake of:
· Root vegetables- carrots, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, Swedes
· Organ meats- liver and kidneys (I accept that many people find these unpalatable and won’t eat them)"

On the other hand, people who subscribe to theories like this also like to believe in the Decimal Hour and alternative alphabets and
the like. So you just don't know. Once a crank, always a crank. It's a bit like that Mel Gibson film, Conspiracy Theory, where he is totally bonkers about everything, but right about some of it. Sort of.