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Re:Simple Rules for Healthy Eating by aurora72 on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:29AM (#9414684)
Well, both Perlmutter and Davis say to avoid all kinds of grains at all costs and Hyman says to avoid all kinds of dairy products (butter, yoghurt, milk) with a possible exception of white cheese and they are all based on science. So I propose based on science. My claims about the restaurants and beverages are based on economic/profitability, restaurants and supermarkets offer decent priced and good tasting meal at the expense of health. If I'm able to get cheap and good tasting chicken at a fried chicken restaurant, I do it at the expense of health, need no science to see that.
Re:Simple Rules for Healthy Eating by lkbm on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @12:24PM (#9415138)
It's definitely not settled science that you should never eat grains. Yes, some experts say you shouldn't, but if you're rejecting one expert because he disagrees with two others, it's definitely not sufficient to say it's "based on science".

As for dairy, while he mentioned using butter without paranoia about fat, he didn't seem to advocate for dairy. Eating dairy might be bad, but "don't eat dairy" is bad (or ineffective) advice because _people won't follow it_. Don't make perfect the enemy of better. (If it makes you feel any better about him, Dr. Carroll regularly rails against "the milk industrial complex"[0][1][2][3].)

[0] http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/finally-someone-...

[1] http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/another-blow-aga...

[2] http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/yet-another-blow...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzyFZcuHmeI