For example, even the dietary guidelines in India [0] include meat despite a substantial portion of the population being vegetarian. This article thusly puts 71% of that population into the unhealthy category, even though many of them wouldn't eat meat even if they could afford to regularly.
[0] http://www.fao.org/nutrition/education/food-based-dietary-gu...
Here in the UK, it's often reported that the poor cannot afford "healthy" food (it never states what healthy food is) and instead they eat unhealthy food - one can only assume they mean stuff like McDonalds?. This never made sense to me, you can buy rice, potatoes, tins of beans, pasta for far less than a burger or a curry. There are YouTube channels dedicated to cooking meals using super-cheap ingredients.
Occasionally I'll just eat a bowl of porridge (with milk) when I can't be bothered cooking. Not only is this extremely cheap but also healthy. You can dried fruits and nuts if you're feeling adventurous. Peanut butter also works.
This whole "poor people can't afford healthy food but can afford unhealthy" needs to stop.
Dr. Michael Greger does a pretty good job at explaining things. He recently did a video on the scientific consensus for a healthy diet. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-scientific-consensus-on.... It's designed for the masses but based on the research. Explanations and access to the research are much more accessible now than 20 years ago.
The closest thing I could find was the blue zones and the diet in these locations. A summary of which is at https://www.bluezones.com/recipes/food-guidelines/. Though, I don't think this is a consensus.
Were you pointing to something else?
I've recently looked at some details from the US NIH, looked at some details out of the CDC, and spoken with someone on their type 2 diabetes program their doctor put them on (to get rid of it). The gist from each of these places is to eat unprocessed mostly plant based. The WHO even classifies some processed meats as carcinogens.
Is someone showing the science of a healthy diet is in a different direction? I'm genuinely looking for a pointer.
He's a textbook of example of what every diet ideologue does.
It's called cherry picking "research" that reaffirms his views - in a field which is barely scientific to begin with.
He didn't arrive at a plant-based diet from "first principles", such as trying to derive it from estimated average requirements for all the various vitamins and minerals, (accounting for bioavailability from various sources).
Because if you do that, you'd have fish, eggs and animal organs as top contenders in bioavailabilty and nutritional density (meaning you can hit most of your RDAs without eating metric ton of food)
He is a not a scientist, he vegan ideologue first and foremost, he even sounds like a Christian preacher in his videos.
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
I'm not interested in dietary advice from anyone who's already made up his mind and is ideologically opposed to animal products.