Originally Posted by
mcours2006
Great discussion! Thanks for posting.
Like @
bruce19 said, you can pretty much find research out there to justify anything. Just look at how many different kinds of diets are out there. No wonder the diet industry is a multi-billion industry.
But it doesn't have to be complicated. "Eat food. Not too much. And mostly plants" -- G. Taubes. Simple and elegant.
I agree, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Taubes who said that.
I've said this a few times on here, but a really good book is "The Gluten Lie" which is all about just how little we really know when it comes to nutrition, examining various times where we felt certain foods were either terrible or "super" and how wrong we were, and how easy it is to find "evidence" of just about any quack theory (the book even makes one up and grabs a lot of "supporting" evidence for it).
Ultimately, something like "Eat food. Not too much. And mostly plants" is as good advice as anything out there.