Primal living embraces lifestyle of ancestors

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Primal living embraces lifestyle of ancestors

 

By Bronwyn Turner

Correspondent

Published July 25, 2012

GALVESTON — Bryan Barksdale was a college student with stomach problems three years ago, even though he was a vegetarian and exercised regularly.

 

Then he read about the paleo/primal lifestyle and went retro.

 

He switched to the diet of his ancestors, heavy on meat, fish and fowl, and abstained from fast food and processed foods. His exercise took on a natural bent, including barefoot running.

 

Amazingly, his health improved.

 

“The biggest thing is just to eat real food,” said Barksdale, now an MD/Ph.D. student at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. “This lifestyle is not about emulating cave men or anything.

 

“It’s about eating foods that our ancestors would have eaten and that even means our great-great-grandfathers,” said Barksdale, speaking by phone from his Galveston home. He has seen others following the lifestyle lose weight and ease symptoms of chronic diseases.

 

Barksdale and his wife, Tracy, have http://galvestondailynews.com/