Sowing the seeds of love

A friend writes:
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its nuts

This guy says SOY is great, next guy says its the worst because of Estrogen ?

Tomatoes are bad, but you need lycopene ?

Health food stores say eat goji berries, next guy says its poison

Wheatgrass is great, but humans cannot digest grass ? you need 4 stomachs like a cow ?

I think Woody Allen had the right idea in Sleeper, hot fudge sundaes !!!

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I have nothing in particular against hot fudge sundaes as long as they are made with banana ice cream:)

But I did have a response, perhaps a good blog post as well:

this sort of confusion is how diet and nutrition "junk" marketing survives and thrives. it is no accident, there are billions made on this kind of misinformation. The primary marketing mechanism, which is remarkably effective, works by sowing the seeds of confusion.

first things first - read (or audiobook) "Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition" by T Colin Campbell, who is arguably the most important nutrition (and by extension human health) research scientist in history...and who BTW is elderly but still active.

Until you've done that here are a few key points to keep in mind:

1) there is such a thing as a species specific diet for every species on the planet, including humans.

2) it is, logically, the diet that produces the most robust health for any given species, including humans.

3) it is also, related to point two, the only method that reverses diseases of malnutrition efficiently and rapidly.

4) post industrial developed world humans are suffering epic scale epidemics of malnutrition, although they are not (yet) commonly thought of in those terms.

5) these epidemics of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, and autoimmune disorders are by far the leading causes of disability and death for developed world humans.

6) most people in the developed world would instead die of old age if they consumed the human "species specific" diet, when combined with common sense measures like physical activity, good sleep, and social activity, etc.

7) the information is not complicated, difficult to understand, and assimilate into a daily lifestyle.