That's Fit

A few weeks ago, I suggested taking a caveman approach to your workout. Rather than focusing on a normal, seven day training week, I mentioned that an abandonment of this calendar-based convention can help unleash your prehistoric potential. Or something like that, anyway. Well, my new suggestion falls in line with this "primitive thinking," only this time around it has to do with diet.

Swedish scientists (who are thankfully much easier to understand than Swedish Chefs) discovered that eating a "Paleolithic diet" can drastically reduce a person's chances of developing type 2 diabetes. In the study, which was conducted at Lund University in Sweden, it was found that men who ate a diet similar to that eaten by prehistoric man improved their ability to process carbohydrates. What's more, this improvement was found to even be greater than people who followed a Mediterranean diet.

While fish, lean meats, and vegetables were very much a part of both groups' diets, the cavemen-type eaters consumed more nuts and fruits, and limited their intake of grains and dairy.