Many foods Americans eat every day serve as a catalyst for a slow, painful demise riddled with preventable illness. This is because people simply do not nourish the body for which it is designed. Low-fat products flavored with dangerous sugars and high-fructose corn syrup line grocery store shelves around the world, with “heart-healthy” labels proudly displayed on the colorful, flashy boxes. Grains, legumes, dairy (if not tolerated), hydrogenated fats, and overly processed foods containing refined sugars that are considered cultural staples and form the foundation of the standard American diet ( SAD), are more than likely the cause of unfortunately. common health conditions such as leptin resistance, chronic inflammation, heart disease and metabolic syndrome, which constitute a cluster of risk factors such as: insulin resistance, obesity, high levels abnormal cholesterol, etc. Additionally, not eating properly can lead to immune system deficiency, lack of energy, sleep disruptions, slow metabolism, acne, food allergies, bloating, and a host of other problems considered to be normal these days. Life was never meant to be this way; fortunately, this unnecessary chaos offers hope in the form of the Paleolithic diet. So to end the madness, Americans should trade their unnatural SAD lifestyle for a virtually disease-free Paleolithic way of eating. So what exactly motivated the start of the processed foods that people disastrously know and love today? Looking back at life years earlier, during the Paleolithic era, Homo sapiens relied on gathering fresh, organic produce or hunting to sustain life. The people were mainly non-agrarian nomads at this time and in the middle of the article ......ch Elite.Pontzer, Herman et al. “Hunter-gatherer energetics and human obesity.” Public Science Library (2012): 1-17. Elite academic research. Greger, JL. “Indigestible carbohydrates and mineral bioavailability.” Journal of Nutrition Volume 129. (199): 1434S-1435S. Elite academic research. Bosma-den Boer, Margarethe M. et al. “Chronic inflammatory diseases are driven by current lifestyle: how diet, stress levels and medications prevent our bodies from recovering.” Nutritional metabolism. (2012). Academic Search Elite. United States Department of Agriculture. “Why is it important to eat grains, especially whole grains? » Choose my plate. Internet. March 1, 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/gluten-what-you-dont-know_b_379089.htmlhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070618124541.htm