| The main ideas are good, but most specifics are unscientific at best. Nutrition is one of those fields where knowing what to do is easy, but actually doing the right thing is hard, so people tend to fall prey to promises of superfoods and silver bullets (Acai are just berries, ghee is just butter, gluten doesnt harm you unless you're allergic,...). Also, don't micro-optimize the details (e.g. which kind of fat to eat), but get the most important big things right (e.g. don't eat too much fat). There's little agreemnt of experts about the small details of nutrition anyway. For me, the important points about nutrition are: - Don't eat too much - Avoid smoking, drugs, too much alcohol - Drink enough, mostly water - As much fruit and vegetable as possible, as little pure fat and sugar as possible. - As fresh and unprocessed as possible. - As much variety as possible. I'm sure there's plenty of rules I could add - but I won't, since the small, simple set of rules above is easy enough to remember and follow, and will get you 90% of the health benefits compared to the diet of someone who obsesses over healthy nutrition. |