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Go ahead: Eat lean meat, eggs, and seafood, if that's what you want. Just remember, as Dr. David L. Katz notes in video interview, the bulk of your diet should be vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds. Katz is the author of "Disease-Proof" (
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https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript - I routinely point out that we could eliminate 80 percent of all chronic disease by using what we know. And we don’t do that. We really bog down in bickering about do we know what we know and is this part of what we know more important than that part of what we know. And in no place is that a bigger problem than diet. There’s obviously a lot of money to be made from confusion. Some years ago I worked on air for Good Morning America and I saw firsthand that there really is a vested interest in TV and the media propagating constant change. If you say the same thing about diet on air enough times in a row people lose interest in your dietary segments. If you say something different every time it’s always interesting. Tune in tomorrow for a new answer. So the media are in on it. The fad diet authors are in on it. Basically a lot of people who just think that their view of the truth through a particular tunnel is the only truth or in on it. But the result is we squander the opportunity to use what we know because we bog down in debate about what we don’t know quite so well. So having completely lost my patience for the status quo I decided to do something about this. And it’s really challenging now because there was a time not all that long ago when a single voice could rise above the din. Think for example about Dr. Koop when he was Surgeon General. Or Benjamin Spock and the influence that he had on parents raising young children. But that era is gone because we live in the age of the blogosphere and cyberspace and everybody’s got a microphone. And there’s just this incredible amount of static.
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LendlSuper *quality
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ZawashEat varied *food, and you will stay *healthy.
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dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)
But porkchops taste GOOD. Bacon tastes GOOD.
ButtleThe trouble is, we don't know. Look at dietary cholesterol, demonized for years, now not that bad for you. Or trans fats -- it wasn't long ago at all that trans-loaded hydrogenated shortening was the healthy alternative to butter or coconut oil; not any more.
These are not just crazy fad diet issues, but the recommendations of the medical mainstream.
gharkabsolutely nailed it, this is all anyone needs to know about nutrition to get their diet about 95% right. As he says, just choose your variant - i.e. the porkchop variant for @dag
RedSkySounds like the same fad he's talking about. My recollection is cholestrol was recommended to be avoided (and I believe still is) for certain at-risk individuals however this was simplified to cholestrol = bad. Similar to the war against fat in food which led to it being replaced by added sugar / other carbohydrates which are in many ways worse in how they interfere with insulin.
The trouble is, we don't know. Look at dietary cholesterol, demonized for years, now not that bad for you. Or trans fats -- it wasn't long ago at all that trans-loaded hydrogenated shortening was the healthy alternative to butter or coconut oil; not any more.
These are not just crazy fad diet issues, but the recommendations of the medical mainstream.
draak13Buttle is absolutely right; we don't know. Nutritional research continues as we learn more about about the incredibly complex biochemistry in our bodies. However, the narrator conveys this same idea a relatively roundabout way. We don't know what particular diet works best (he names vegan, paleo, and mediterranean diets specifically), but he claims that all of them will work well. We perhaps don't specifically know *why* they work, but there is compelling population level data to show that they do. We will eventually be able to unearth why they work, and then likely improve upon the diets further.
Sounds like the same fad he's talking about. My recollection is cholestrol was recommended to be avoided (and I believe still is) for certain at-risk individuals however this was simplified to cholestrol = bad. Similar to the war against fat in food which led to it being replaced by added sugar / other carbohydrates which are in many ways worse in how they interfere with insulin.
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