To
read part one “Getting Paleo Fit...The Why!©” go HERE
Humans, like bears, are omnivores and
can eat either plants or animals, what is eaten often depends on what is
available. However, ever since Homo erectus,
50,000 generations, or 1.5 million years ago, humans have become more carnivorous,
in fact anthropologists, believe “...that meat-eating has played a
significant role in the evolution of Homo, not just Homo sapiens”.
Up until the end of the Ice Age, 390
generations, or 11,700 years ago, humans were apex predators, and the world was
full of megafauna: mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, cave bears, and more. In modern hunter-gatherer societies today, big-game
hunting is generally a male behavior; but before the end of the Ice Age, it
would have required the participation of everyone, whether driving or
dispatching large megafauna. So, Great
Grandad and Great Grandma, 84,000 years ago, would both have been buff marathon
runners!
We
evolved for movement and exercise and the body remembers, even if we’ve
forgotten. So, what did Great Grandma and
Great Grandpa do, all those generations ago, to keep strong, healthy and
fit? To start with they got up and
walked, everywhere, all the time, every day!
So,
get walking. Get a step counter and see
how many steps you take in an average day, and then set a goal to increase
it. Work up to at least 10,000 steps a
day by adding in blocks of 2,000 steps. 10,000
steps in one go is a walk of an hour and forty minutes, so break it up and
spread it out throughout the day. And
get outside to get your steps in, outdoor exercise gives you sunlight that will
stimulate vitamin D production in your skin.
If possible, walk in a natural setting, since research shows that a 60
minute walk in nature improves memory performance and attention span, compared
to the same length of a walk in an urban setting. And an hour and forty minutes of walking
outside on trails or grass will burn about 400 calories, which over seven days
of walking is about ¾ pounds (340 grams) of fat.
Don’t forget to come back next week and read “Getting Paleo
Fit...Learning How to Stay Alive!©”, where we will talk about what to look for
in an exercise plan to get paleo fit!
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is all for now, and as always, until next time, Happy Trails!
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