How to Eat: Facts and Fallacies about Healthy Food
Chew on these science-based, common-sense ways to eat better
Nutrition advice is a bewildering brew of helpful and terrible information, steadily stirred by conflicting new studies, click-bait headlines to misleading articles, and the food industry’s colossal marketing efforts aiming to simply sell, sell, sell.
Amid all the confusion, however, is a strong expert consensus on the key aspects of healthy eating. So let’s sort through the stew of solid nutrition science and harmful food fallacies and glom onto some helpful, common-sense ways of eating. These simple guidelines will improve your odds of living years longer and staying physically healthy and mentally well.
Oh, and if you wish to argue about any of this — and I know some of you will — please first see the final paragraph.
Facing food facts
Most diets are not good for most people. Certain medical conditions require specific diets, under the supervision of a medical professional. But otherwise, most diets — especially those marketed for money and/or promising fast and amazing weight loss — range from unproven to incomplete to outright unhealthy. Whether it’s Atkins or keto, paleo or a juice cleanse, there’s one ultimate truth about diets: Most of…
