[normalhuman]

> The whole debate about nutrition confuses me.

It is only confusing if one spends too much time paying attention to those who want to sell you something, or develop some sort of guru personal-brand (I vomit in my mouth a little bit when I write things like "personal brand").

Here's what most people need to know: Eat unprocessed food, mostly from vegetable sources.

This means no refined-anything (no added sugar, no white flour, no hydrogenated-fats, etc.)

The less ingredients the better. The more you recognize the ingredients as something you could grow in nature, the better.

I imagine I will be bombarded with paleo-something, keto-whatever, broscience, etc etc. You don't need any of that. Eat unprocessed food, mostly from vegetable sources and you will be way ahead of the vast majority of western people in terms of having a healthy nutrition.

It's boring, unsexy and it works.

[snazz]

Unprocessed != nutritionally balanced, although it often is. The “fewer ingredients == better” people often forget that you still need to balance your diet. The “mostly from vegetable sources” part might leave you in need of more fat and protein, but this is of course depends on the person.

[smn1234]

non-scientific thoughts: I believe eating unprocessed food is important due to how the body breaks it down. Eating corn vs. corn flour I imagine has different effects on the body and on indicators of satiety

[wincy]

Ah, but eating unprocessed corn as a primary part of your diet will cause pellagra, unless you soak it in lime water. So unprocessed isn’t always best.