Nutrition should not be guided by religion. Eating like your ancestors is a better starting point. Check out KenDBerry on you tube. Keep searching✌️
I am an open-minded skeptic and I challenge what I think I know, rather than try to confirm it. But that doesn't mean I disagree with the 'establishment' or 'mainstream' on lots of things. Only on a few things. Only where the evidence leads me.
In particular, I agree with mainstream nutrition science. And I know far more about it than I let on (even though I don't practice it). I've followed it since the 70s and have too many books. I was raised a vegetarian by an SDA mother who preached the Ellen White "health message" to us kids growing up. I remember the science even then showing SDAs living something like 9 years longer than everybody else. My great grandmother (an SDA) lived to 99. I'm a member of the CR society and used to post on that newsgroup for years. I let myself lapse in the last 15 years and let myself be convinced by passing fads, articles, and meta-analyses that meat is good for you and that keto is good for you (and I ended up with a property that had sheep on it so I learnt to farm sheep) and I sorta thought the mainstream view had moved past low-fat diets on to low-carb ones. But I dug into it today and... nope. I was just fooled by what has become popular online.
You keto diet people are going to die of heart attacks in your 50s and 60s. You will seem healthy right up until the end. Fit, lean body mass, top form. Then pop, you're dead. The science was in 50 years ago and is only more certain now. Don't be fooled by supplement salesmen or beef industry lobbyists. If you want a social media influencer, listen to nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 . Veganism is very close to the most healthy diet and he'll probably live past 100. I will still tease him about it though. Fucker... trying to outlive us... how dare he!
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Nutrition should not be guided by religion. This is very correct. I doubt studies that come out of Loma-Linda University for that very reason, even though they have been vetted by the industry.
Eating like your ancestors is a good starting point. That will optimize your chances of reproduction. Evolution doesn't select for longevity which is a very different endpoint.
I've seen enough of Dr Ken D Berry, Family Physician. He is not a nutrition researcher, he is a YouTuber. He is good at speaking and convincing people of things. He doesn't know what he's talking about and is far too sure of it. He rejects epidemiology for good sounding reasons, but doesn't explain the much worse problems of the studies he chooses to accept. The idea that meat must be good because we evolved eating meat (our ancestral food) sounds almost unassailably correct... but there are ways to assail that theory. Evolution selects for reproduction not longevity. And also our ancestors might have eaten huge amounts of vegetables and fruits that didn't fossilize, we don't know they ate a lot of meat. And also higher meat diets might be perfectly healty as long as you are skin and bones and near starving like an Amazon hunter or an African tribal person. Do you see how eating a lot of meat isn't obviously healthy, how that theory could be wrong? But the biggest reason to disbelieve it is the mountains of research on humans done over the last 80 years that show it's not true.
Thanks for the response✌️Will agree to disagree.