Nutrition: The Basis for Health

The CrossFit prescription for nutrition is:

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.

The Caveman or Paleolithic Model for Nutrition
Modern diets are ill suited for our genetic composition. Evolution has not kept pace with advances in agriculture and food processing resulting in a plague of health problems for modern man. Coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and psychological dysfunction have all been scientifically linked to a diet too high in refined or processed carbohydrate.  The Paleo Diet is perfectly consistent with the CrossFit prescription. The following books are a great start in learning about Paleo nutrition:



• The Paleo Diet by Dr. Loren Cordain
• The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf
• Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes
• It Starts With Food by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig
• The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson
• Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis