[andrewla]

> The essential nutrients that your body needs are

The article has an extensive discussion as to why this way of phrasing the problem is not only meaningless but actively harmful.

That's not to say your diet is necessarily bad; frankly by adhering to his "eat food, not too much" you're 2/3 of the way to what Pollan recommends. You're only missing "mostly plants", but you're doing better from his rubric than a diet consisting of mostly processed food products.

[bdbenton5255]

Right, I just disagree with the author as nutrition is more complex than what he posited. Following his advice, you will not acquire sufficient nutrients to do things like build muscle.