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Since we all know about the food pyramid this article won't provide yet another tour of that ancient ruin that recommends what results in a not completely compatible diet for humans. Most of us know what foods are healthful, but here are a few tricks to getting more out of less.

There are four important things to remember if the food is to go to energy and health rather than short spurts of hyperactivity and fat:

1) Don't resort to fast carbs; they give you a burst of energy, but cause blood sugar to spike and then disappear, leaving you feeling more depleted than before.

2) Humans evolved to eat readily available fresh foods such as animals and fish we could procure, along with pure water, eggs, berries, nuts, and other plants found in the environment. As agriculture grew, we learned to farm certain grains which invaded our once humanoid compatible diet. They are not the best food for us after all. It turns out they remain difficult to digest, even when ground into flour. Eating lots of grains can cause loss of minerals, interference with protein digestion, depression of the thyroid gland and even cause autoimmune disease.

3) Eating one thing at a time allows for the best digestion, resulting in the most energy from the least food.

4) Consider your body's clock when you plan meals.

How does one make use of the four clues? Different cultures have evolved to metabolize foods differently depending on factors such as hours of sunlight, altitude, proximity to water and many other factors. Prescription cuisine should not be described as if it were an all-purpose solution. Following is a grocery list that contains many staples that have become common to many cultures as the human diet evolved:

Red meat
Rice
Sugars
Flours
Milk products
Chocolate
Potatoes
Orang es
Butter
Corn
Beans/nuts
Coffee
Po ultry
Eggs

Suggestions for a few ingredients of an energy-producing diet, as recommended by nutritionists are as follows:

Broiled fish
Poultry
Green leafy and other vegetables
Eggs
Tuna
[Whole-grain carbohydrates]

Notice the difference between what is on the first list and the second list. The first list contains readily available basics used to stave off hunger. The second list consists of long-term energy producing choices minus the empty calories.

If we are focused on having a low-cost energy-producing diet that fills us, (without too much regard for our ancestors) the list might begin like this:

Hamburger
Oranges
Chicken
Eg g
Potatoes
Rice
Complex carbohydrates

Perhpas this simple fresh fare would't please

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