Changes to your diet can have a beneficial effect when they happen to remove one or two food items that are causing problems. When I tried a low-carb diet, I happened to cut oatmeal and granola from my diet, and it turns out that both of those cause a number of health issues for me. The low-carb diet helped me identify a problem area, but low-carb itself was not the solution. I've since gone back to a more balanced and conventional diet, but I still avoid the two foods that cause problems for me. It's too bad, because I enjoy oatmeal and I love granola, but any time I tried to reintroduce them into my diet, the old problems resurfaced.
I think that we are taught that diets are a one-size-fits-all item, but it's the opposite-- each person should find what works for them. But there is a lot of money to be made by peddling miracles, and I expect that we'll never be rid of diet fads that promise to cure what ails each and every one of us.
I think that we are taught that diets are a one-size-fits-all item, but it's the opposite-- each person should find what works for them. But there is a lot of money to be made by peddling miracles, and I expect that we'll never be rid of diet fads that promise to cure what ails each and every one of us.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
