Truth’s ringtone
Sep 3, 2018 · 2 min read
I’m not a nutritionist. I haven’t studied nutrition, and I don’t know a thing about the alimentary canal beyond what I learned in high school.
And yet I make nutritional decisions every day, and I’m in pretty good health. I read about nutrition often, and I have to decide for myself what to believe. How do I do that? What tips me off that an article or diet program is sound, and worth following?
The answer is that I believe articles whose reasoning I can follow. Sometimes they use a heuristic argument, like ‘humans have evolved in conditions like these, so it stands to…

