"Let medicine be thy food and food be thy medicine" is a quote that is over two thousand years old. It still holds true in most cases. Did you know that? It makes sense when you think about it, doesn't it?

Have you ever seen those signs at the zoos "Do not feed the animals!". Most children when they ask their mothers "Why can't I give the monkey some crisps?" The mothers reply "Because their not used to eating crisps and it would be bad for them." well hello, humans are not used to eating crisps either. Sure we are omnivores and eat fish and meat as well as fruits and nuts and vegetables and salad leaves but we've evolved pretty much on a par with monkeys for the last four hundred million years.

It's only the last ten thousand years that we have had agriculture, and the last hundred years that we have had artificial preservatives, artificial sweeteners, deep fat fryers, microwaves, margarine, mercury and pcb contamination, artificial pesticides, artificial herbicides etc. etc. My point is this, if you rewind the clock ten thousand years, analyse what people ate and eat a similar diet to that you will have a very healthy diet. It's called the paleo diet as a reference to the paleolithic period our caveman and cavewoman ancestors thrived. Before you Google 'paleo diet' I would like to add my own understanding that our genes have adapted somewhat over the last ten thousand years and so I would say that you do not have to follow the paleo diet to the letter, but just make it the majority or at least half of your diet.

That's not to say the rest of it you can fill up with the five worst foods for your health