Paleo Diet Simple Guide for Beginners The Paleo Diet, short for the Paleolithic Diet, is a dietary approach that seeks to mimic the eating patterns of our distant ancestors, specifically those who lived during the Paleolithic era, which began approximately 2.5 million years ago and ended around 10,000 years ago with the advent of agriculture. The fundamental idea behind the Paleo Diet is to consume foods that our hunter-gatherer ancestors...