Tag: Paleolithic diet

Cardiovascular disease resulting from a diet and lifestyle at odds with our Paleolithic genome: how to become a 21st-century hunter-gatherer

This 2004 review by O’Keefe and Cordain explores the discordance between modern Western diets and lifestyles and the genetic makeup shaped during the Paleolithic era. The authors argue that the shift from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one characterized by processed foods, sedentary behavior, and chronic stress has contributed to the

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Randomized controlled trials investigating the relationship between dietary pattern and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein: a systematic review

This systematic review, published in 2019 in Nutritional Reviews (DOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuz003), analyzed 56 randomized controlled trials to investigate the effects of various dietary patterns on high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) levels, a marker of systemic inflammation linked to cardiovascular risk. The review examined diets such as low-fat, low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean, Portfolio, Paleolithic,

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