The Caveman Diet, also known as the Paleo Diet, is a weight-loss craze where calorie-counters pick foods they think early humans may have eaten. For most followers, this means a meat-heavy diet.

The paleo diet – also known as the caveman diet – is based on the idea of eating similar foods to our ancestors from the Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age, who lived around 2.5 million to 12,000 ...

One may expect our preagriculture ancestors to have a less balanced diet than that of today, when grocery stores house endless options of countless foods, but Armelagos says that isn’t so. “During the ...