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Feeding Homo sapiens: Are We Truly As Clueless As We Seem?
Folks, believe it or not, we are not clueless about the basic care and feeding of Homo sapiens. We are not hopelessly lost and confused despite the popular diet book that blames it all on meat competing with the popular diet book that blames it all on wheat competing with the popular diet book that blames it on just sugar competing with the popular diet book that says all grains suck.
Some months ago, I was privileged with an invitation to write a scholarly paper for the peer-reviewed journal, Annual Review of Public Health, entitled “Can We Say What Diet is Best for Health?” The paper, which comes out in March, has a bibliography with 167 entries, representing a wide array of sources about diverse diets, reviewed with an earnest attempt at dispassionate objectivity. Even this long list of citations is a drop in the proverbial bucket, and is truncated at 167 because the journal had no space for more. I, along with a team of assistants, am now nearing completion of the 3 edition of my nutrition textbook for health professionals, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, and that source will have between 7,000 and 10,000 references, all in service of the same goal: establishing the facts about diet and health.
Those facts, derived from modern research, historical experience, and evolutionary biology alike all support a clearly established theme of healthful eating for Homo sapiens rather well expressed by Michael Pollan as:
eat food, not too much, mostly plants. With stunning consistency, a vast literature exploring diverse cultures, dietary patterns, and health outcomes, returns again and again to this theme. Off the reservation are highly processed, glow-in-the-dark foods. Always on are vegetables, fruits, beans, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Almost universal are whole grains. Lean meats, fish, seafood and dairy come and go with variations on the theme, but there is clearly room for them for those so inclined.
In fact, it’s a beautifully commodious scenario. The basic theme of optimal eating is quite clearly established, while the best variant on that theme most certainly is not- leaving each of us where we belong, holding the oven mitt. Variations on the theme allow us to invoke the common principles of healthful eating, while making personalized choices conducive to loving the food that loves us back. Variations on the theme readily accommodate your choice of a vegetarian, low glycemic, Mediterranean, Asian, or Paleo diet.
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