Berlin Restaurant Serves Caveman Food

A restaurant in Berlin, Germany has thrown out modern processed foods, and has gone back to basics. Way, way back.

It's now serving its customers foods that were  accessible to our hunter-gatherer ancestors more than two million years ago.

The restaurant is named Sauvage, the French word for 'savage' or 'wild.'   It's part of the growing Paleolithic diet movement and claims to be first of its kind in Europe.

Our Paleolithic ancestors would not have had been able to call upon our modern culinary skills, so Sauvage serves only organic, unprocessed fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds, and herbs.

The menu includes salads with olives, capers and pine nuts; gluten-free bread with nut-based butter or olive tapenades; smoked salmon with herb dressing; and other various meat and fish dishes.

Gluten- and sugar-free cakes, like a spicy pumpkin pie, are available for those Stone Age diners who don't want to skip dessert.

The owner of Sauvage says "Many people think the Paleolithic diet is just some hipster trend, but it's a worldwide phenomenon, with an online community that spans the globe."

'The trend is probably strongest in the United States, where people who have had enough of the fast food way of life and generations of illness have taken it up.

via Back to the Stone Age: Trendy restaurant serves food only available to our caveman ancestors | Mail Online.

Is this healthy?  It depends on whom you ask.  A poll conducted earlier this year showed a large majority of people who tried it think it's the best way to lose weight.  However, US News and World Report says studies show the caveman diet is the least effective way to lose weight and it will disappoint those who try it.

Whether it's an effective way to lose weight or not, it's still healthy.  After all, this regimen kept our prehistoric ancestors healthy and able to survive in an age when only the strong lived to become adults who could reproduce.

We are here today because they survived back then.