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by a8da6b0c91d 4422 days ago
Diet matters. There are good scientifically informed choices that can reduce your risk of horrible diseases like cancer and alzheimers.

Even in the context of traditional diets there are good ones and bad ones.

Do you want to look like this guy: http://www.kimmacquarrie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Mash...

Or this guy: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rTRD-USWhSk/UTIwrhmGFcI/AAAAAAAAAT...

They both eat traditional diets, clearly with very different physiological outcomes.

2 comments

Your making the assumption that because one guy is skinny he is healthier than the other. The 2nd picture (Darker Skinned) is a Maasai Warrior and the other are Mascho Piro. They will probably have different diets and do differencing amounts of exercise daily, but just because one is thin and one is not as thin, doesn't say anything about health.
Both look healthy to me ;) The problem is that since we do not have the means to conduct the scientific experiments ourselves we rely on experts and public agencies. Hard to tell if either is working unbiased. So, in lack of certainty and trust, I rather just eat as my grandparents did. So far so good!