"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." - Michael Pollan
Pollan is up a woo-rope when it comes to a lot of his organic and anti-GMO bullshittery, but he had a point, which is why the Mediterranean diet actually works, as it focuses on moderation.
It's perfectly acceptable for someone with a healthy immune and digestive system to indulge in 'junk' food on occasion - the real problem is, and there have been studies on this, we are fucking TERRIBLE at portioning out our food. It's great to tell someone to eat steak - did you know the amount of meat we actually need throughout the day is MUCH smaller than what you're served, usually?
We eat too much and too fast. It's culturally acceptable to wolf down your food and get back to work instead of doing things the French way where you eat slowly and thus register being "not hungry" faster.
My mother went gluten-free on some idea, and doesn't claim to have an intolerance (although she doesn't handle gluten well now that she's been off it for so long) but the diet allowed to lose enough weight to go off her cholesterol meds. Fantastic. But just about any diet where you're being forced to limit ingredients and portion control is going to do that for you.
It's entirely possible to be unhealthy from eating too much of 'good things' as well.
If you like the Japanese lifestyle, that's cool. But American food doesn't have anything to do with your illness. Just the hygiene of the location. Same with sodas - I cut them out of my diet and I only have one on a rare occasion, the way you're supposed to do for a lot of stuff.
Pollan is up a woo-rope when it comes to a lot of his organic and anti-GMO bullshittery, but he had a point, which is why the Mediterranean diet actually works, as it focuses on moderation.
It's perfectly acceptable for someone with a healthy immune and digestive system to indulge in 'junk' food on occasion - the real problem is, and there have been studies on this, we are fucking TERRIBLE at portioning out our food. It's great to tell someone to eat steak - did you know the amount of meat we actually need throughout the day is MUCH smaller than what you're served, usually?
We eat too much and too fast. It's culturally acceptable to wolf down your food and get back to work instead of doing things the French way where you eat slowly and thus register being "not hungry" faster.
My mother went gluten-free on some idea, and doesn't claim to have an intolerance (although she doesn't handle gluten well now that she's been off it for so long) but the diet allowed to lose enough weight to go off her cholesterol meds. Fantastic. But just about any diet where you're being forced to limit ingredients and portion control is going to do that for you.
It's entirely possible to be unhealthy from eating too much of 'good things' as well.
If you like the Japanese lifestyle, that's cool. But American food doesn't have anything to do with your illness. Just the hygiene of the location. Same with sodas - I cut them out of my diet and I only have one on a rare occasion, the way you're supposed to do for a lot of stuff.
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