As one of the newest and hottest diet trends around in the United States, the Paleo diet is essentially a high-protein, low-carb diet based on the hypothesized diets of our caveman ancestors. With its emphasis on poultry, lean meats, whole fruits and vegetables, as well as nuts but not grains, legumes, dairy or anything refined or processed, the theory behind the diet is simple. As quoted in an online review by US News & World Report: "if cavemen didn't eat it, you shouldn't either." Because our hunter-gatherer ancestors never had to eat the highly processed, antibiotic- and hormone-rich food we eat today, they were much healthier, lived more active lives, and never suffered from “civilization disease.” many people in the United States and around the world are dealing with it today. So what's the real fault here? According to supporters of the paleo diet, humans were physically and developmentally on the right track until the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago, which stimulated widespread grain production and introduced grains and thus “toxins” into the food chain. Unfortunately, however, although the Paleo diet may seem promising, a recent analysis of the scientific literature reveals that the Paleo diet, in its most extreme versions, is nothing more than a dietary gimmick that relies on heavy carbohydrate restrictions to achieve weight loss, essentially just a simple short-term solution that fails to solve long-term problems. As author Robb Wolf points out time and time again in his popular book, The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet, “today's agricultural diets make us chronically ill.” The Paleo diet, by forcing us to eat more like our caveman ancestors, solves all of our harmful, highly processed, f... middle of paper... problems with occasional adjustments from time to time, seems to produce some marginal benefits for the overall health, promoting significant decreases in blood sugar, insulin and cholesterol levels. The Paleo diet, however, is only a short-term quick fix and certainly not for everyone. Anyone can lose weight by following a diet, but maintaining the weight loss is usually much easier said than done. It takes not only enormous willpower and dedication, but also incredible faith in the diet's effectiveness to continue following their exhausting diets, and most dieters, regardless of the diet, eventually give up their weight loss regimes. Since it ultimately doesn't seem to make much difference whether or not we limit things in our pantries, perhaps, the best diet in the world is simply to have, as Julia Child stated, "everything in moderation... including moderation.”