title: Paleolithic diets as a model for prevention and treatment of Western disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the possibility that a paleolithic-like diet can be used in the prevention of age-related degenerative Western disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review of African Paleolithic foods in relation to recent evidence of healthy nutrition.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Available evidence lends weak support in favor and little against the notion that lean meat, fish, vegetables, tubers, and fruit can be effective in the prevention and treatment of common Western diseases. There are no obvious risks with avoiding dairy products, margarine, oils, refined sugar, and cereal grains, which provide 70% or more of the dietary intake in northern European populations. If stroke, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer are preventable by dietary changes, an ancestral-like diet may provide an appropriate template.
authors.affiliation: Department of Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Sweden. staffan.lindeberg@med.lu.se
authors.forename: Staffan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lindeberg
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000517:prevention & control; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors