What is the Paleo Diet?

Have you heard of the Paleo diet?   It’s sometimes referred to as the Caveman diet.

From the description of the Paleoista book on Amazon, it’s described this way:

THE PALEO DIET grows out of the belief that we were intended to eat off the land: what walks on it, grows from it, or swims in its waters. It’s about sticking to the kind of foods that human beings were born to ingest (fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood, lean meats, and natural fats), and excluding those that were developed later (grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils).

If you ask me, this is a pretty radical way to eat.  In fact, I am not quite willing to forsake old-fashioned oatmeal and fat-free popcorn.  However, I have been avoiding grains and dairy and it turns out to be not that difficult.

You can follow Nell, the author of Paleoista, on her blog here. 

What do you think about this particular diet?  Would you ever give it a try?