This essay explores the benefits of following a Paleolithic-style diet. That is, eating the foods that our bodies have ingested and evolved on over the last 10 million years. Today's highly refined grain, sugar and carbohydrate diet has only been introduced into our lives in the last 0.4% of the time we have been standing on this planet. This radical change in our nutritional intake is the basis of many new age diseases of modern man. The paleo diet is not a fad diet for weight loss; it is a lifestyle consisting of a diet without bad food. It contains very little of the heart-clogging fats found everywhere in the typical Western diet. It is free from overly processed foods, refined salt, refined sugars, processed oils, grains and dairy. It is based on how we hunter-gatherers ate and evolved 2.5 million years ago. Their diet included more low-fat protein and healthier fats than we eat today, fewer carbohydrates, much less salt, and not a single grain of wheat, rice, or corn. According to Eaton and Konner (1985), modern cereals were not introduced into our diet until the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago. Therefore, for 99.6 percent of our time on this planet, we have not eaten grain-based foods. Until then, every human being on the planet thrived on fresh fruits, vegetables, and lean meats. It's been less than 200 generations since we abandoned this healthy lifestyle and moved to agriculture. Some naysayers believe that it is not necessary to follow the paleo diet because our bodies have had the chance to evolve over the last 10,000 years to accept and adapt to foods such as grains, dairy and fattier cuts of meat. Feldman and Cavalli-Sforza (1989) find that the medical problems we see today can be attributed to "middle of paper..." ...Sobal and Bisogni (2003), participants characterized their work as including long hours, inflexible schedules, overtime, and shift work that left them feeling like they did not have the necessary personal resources in the form of time or energy for routine household tasks such as preparing meals that meet to their own ideals. For some, it makes much more sense in today's highly stressed and overworked lifestyle to forgo tedious meal preparation, to sit down faster or get behind the wheel and order your meal routine. For these people, a little education and persuasion may help them adopt a healthier lifestyle. However, there are practical steps that can be taken immediately to improve your choices for you and your family. We must strive to restore our diet to the way it was before the agricultural revolution..