Welcome to Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

In previous episodes, you've learned about Caveman and Paleo Fitness.

For example, in the episode What Are Paleo Exercises?

You learned that ancient man didn't do

much exercising with his butt planted on a weight machine seat. Exercise back then consisted

primarily of squatting, bending, lunging, pushing, pulling, twisting, and walking slash running,

or what I called gait in that episode. In the episode, fuel your workouts with the

paleo diet. You learned about a popular diet that avoids many modern agricultural foods like

bread and cereal, along with highly processed foods, artificial sweeteners, preservatives,

and just about anything that our caveman ancestors, or our great grandparents for that matter wouldn't have

recognized as real food. And recently, in the newsletter, We're Still Hunter Gatherers, you learn that

based on the results of a recent study, no matter how much you exercise, you may also want to

think about your food more like a primitive hunter-gatherer. Now, to read details of any of those

particular episodes, you can simply go to get-fit guy.quickand-dirtytips.com. I'll link to all of them

in the show notes for this episode, which is entitled Caveman Fitness Lessons. All of these

concepts are based on the idea of ancestral health, which proposes that humans

suffer from numerous metabolic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, and yet

these health maladies were virtually non-existent during most of our ancestry. The ancestral health

movement says that post-industrial foods, combined with mostly sedentary

lifestyles, have pushed our physiologies dangerously far from their adapted environments.

I became so interested in this topic that I recently attended something called the Ancestral Health

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