Not heard of the Paleo diet before? It’s based on the kind of meals that were eaten by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. ‘That means eating only foods that would have been available before farming practices began, about 10,000 years ago,’ says registered nutritionist Tamara Willner.
The idea for the Paleo diet came from the belief that people were generally healthier in the Palaeolithic era, with lower rates of heart disease and type 2 diabetes – and it’s thought these results could be replicated by modifying our