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The biology of the human body and food is so complex, science is nowhere close to understanding it helpfully enough to design a diet, even if you call it an old diet. I'd bet you'd find a high correlation between unhealthy diet and degree of "scientific" perspective people had on their diet. I offer the United States as exhibit one.

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> The biology of the human body and food is so complex, science is nowhere close to understanding it helpfully enough to design a diet

To me, this is an argument for eating real foods, and a reason to be skeptical of things like soylent. But I don't think you can get from there to saying it doesn't matter what you eat, or that anybody with a rationale behind their food choices is delusional.

To me, too, this is the biggest argument in favor of avoiding specific fads and eating "real" food, there's been too many reversals of x is good / x is bad in the recent decades to try to even pretend we know. (not to mention there are still new phytochemicals being found in fruits and vegetables all the time, things we wouldn't even know to artificially add in things like soylent)

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