Stoneage Month - April 2012

April 23rd 2012

St Werburghs City Farm Cafe

The course runs on Monday evenings 7.00 - 9.00 pm at St Werburghs City Farm Cafe, Watercress Road, Bristol BS2 9YJ . There will be 5 sessions in all. First session is on April 23rd 2012 and sessions will be on every Monday evening thereafter until May 21st.

For full details of the Stoneage Diet please visit the Seriously Stoneage website. For full details of the schedule for the Stoneage Month, please visit this page.



This is a month long personal experiment that approximately follows the diet of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The reasons for doing it are many and varied, but generally fall into 3 categories:

1. Health:

The profound dietary changes experienced by humans over the past 10,000 years - and greatly accelerated over the past 100 years - conflict with the nutritional input that our genetic structure evolved to maximize. So the theory goes that, although our society has evolved beyond recognition since stoneage times, our bodies haven’t and are, therefore, better suited to stoneage foods.

There is a growing body of evidence supporting the idea that for many people several modern health problems can be alleviated simply by eliminating some modern foods from the diet.


2. Weightloss:

Most people who have a little bit extra find that they lose weight quite easily after adopting the stoneage diet.


3. Performance:

Over the past few years many sports people, professional athletes, etc. have adopted the stoneage diet, having discovered how much their performance improves once they have made the change.


Outline of Programme

Whilst we can’t really know with 100% certainty what our ancestors ate, and their diets would have varied in composition according to what was available in the local habitat, we can be sure of the following guidelines: they ate wild meat (including internal organs and bonemarrow), fish, fruits, vegetables, roots, eggs, and nuts. They did not eat any dairy, grains, legumes, refined fat and sugars – although they might have had access to honey at certain times of the year. They certainly did not consume any food products that require sophisticated processing, such as refined sugars and vegetable or other processed oils, milled grains and any grain based products.

For a period of 30 days stick strictly to the ground rules described on the Seriously Stoneage Stoneage Diet page.  Here are the ground rules directly.


Meetings

Our experience has shown that people are much more likely to benefit from the 30 days if they are doing it with other people, sharing their experience and learning more details about the theory. A little bit of learning goes a very long way in this context, especially when it is linked directly to your own experience.

Our Stoneage Month Programme includes five 2-hour meetings over the course of the 30 days, to help facilitate this process. In brief, each meeting will combine an opportunity to share what you are experiencing, and how you are manging (including recipe tips!), along with a more structured teaching about the nutritional theory, and health issues. Over the course of the 30 days we will explore:

For full details of the schedule for the Stoneage Month, please visit this page.