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It is and will always be wrong to focus upon a singel ingrediens in food and blame it for health problems.

Just eat a balanced diet based upon non processed food and do so in moderation. Then move around a bit

I had a teacher a long time ago who frequently told us to make sure we ate Apples or Bananas or whatever it was, now while it was still healthy / good for you.

She had observed a lot of twists and turns in what science decided was healthy or not over her lifetime.

All hype and fads that has laser focus on a single issue to avoid or pig out on are unhealthy.

I remember having co-workers who were dieting by eating big cubes of (Highly processed) cheese and packets of (highly processed) lunch meat.

Just 4 to 5 packages of plastic wrapped pseudo ham and whatever.

I dont care what it was called or who endorsed it but there is no way in hell that was a healthy idea.

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>Just eat a balanced diet based upon non processed food and do so in moderation.

But our notion of a balanced diet is wrong, which is the whole point of this. Who knows what a balanced diet really is now?

Is it? Lots of fruits and vegetables every day. Some nuts a few days a week. Red meat once or twice a week, poultry meat and eggs for the rest of the week. Add in things like olive/avocado oil, spices, vinegar, yogurt. Drink water, tea/coffee, milk. Rarely rice, pasta, potatoes.

How could you go wrong with that ? That's basically my diet.

"lots of fruits" after selectively breeding and engineering them into sugar bombs is one of the most unpersuading leads possible to me for a balanced diet.

Disclaimer: not a nutritional scientist, just passing interest.

I don't see fish, which is, from what I've heard, important for nutritional diversity.

Also, fruit has lots of sugars so it might not be the best for "lots of".

> That's basically my diet.

How many people agree with you that it's a good diet? I'm especially surprised by "rarely rice", which is a staple in many Asian countries.

This is often false. Many people following this way of eating are still sick, weak, and often skinny fat. I was one of them. Of course this is going to be better than a McDonald diet, but it does a terrible job at fixing problems for people with any kind of metabolic problems.

> Who knows what a balanced diet really is now?

Simple.

Food. Mostly plants. As close to raw as convenient.

The hippies were right

Lots of tannins then? Not really healthy. A balanced diet, switching between periods of meat and vegetables, punctuated by vigorous exercise. That will serve you better.

Really? My guess is the opposite. Everyone knows what they are supposed to eat but doesn’t. I don’t believe anyone on this site couldn’t recommend a healthy diet.

There is, at the very least, plenty of conjecture that the over-reliance on grains and grain-derived foods in the USDA food pyramid is better for the profits of agribusiness than the health of the nation.

I think Asia would disagree on keeping grains as a staple.

Processed grains perhaps but again I would be surprised if someone here was shocked that processed grains aren’t great for you.

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