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Importance of Topic to Practice
The Paleolithic diet (also referred to as the caveman, Stone Age, or hunter-gatherer diet) is marketed to the general public as a way to improve health and cure diseases including cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and diabetes. This marketing is through the Internet, magazines, and books directed to lay audiences with claims that humans evolved prior to the development of agriculture, and thus our genetic make up is more suited to