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by matt4077
3430 days ago
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You're wilfully misrepresenting Pollan's argument. He gives specific definitions of "food", "not too much", and "plants" that directly address your objections. And the fact that these recommendations are somewhat generic is exactly his point: don't listen to the latest fad specifying the exact relation of n-3 to n-6 fatty acids, but concentrate on heuristics that have remained unchanged for 60 years+. |
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I'm not. His argument is very simply that we should eat less meat and more grains. From TFA:
it might be wise to eat more plants and less meat.
most of the plants we have come to rely on are grains
Vegetarians are healthier than carnivores
All of this is garbage. Grains (eaten to the scale we do in the industrialized world, which is as the bulk of our calories) are poison. Yes, he does say a few things that are not false, such as "eating leaves is good". However I think you'd get better dietary advice by saying "eat things that begin with letter S".