text: The benefits of eating bugs - The Week
  The benefits of eating bugs	Meet the new Paleo diet	By Daniella Martin | March 1, 2014	Mmm, lunch.	(REUTERS/Francois Lenoir)	YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD of the Stone Age diet craze known as the Paleolithic Diet, made popular most recently by Dr. Loren Cordain's best-seller The Paleo Diet. The premise is simple: If our early human ancestors couldn't have eaten it, we shouldn't, either. It's the one time, it seems, that being like a caveman is a good thing.
  Maguey worms. | (HENRY ROMERO/Reuters/Corbis)
  Food market in Yangon, Myanmar. | (Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Press/Corbis)
  Grasshoppers. | (Yannick Tylle/Corbis)
  Excerpted from Edible: An Adventure into the World Of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope To Save the Planet with permission of Amazon Publishing/New Harvest. ©2014 by Daniella Martin. All rights reserved.	Sponsor content EDITORS' PICKS