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> Ask five different doctors and you'll get five different responses as to what are the accepted parameters in a healthy diet.

You really wont. It'll be pretty much advice about eating a varied diet, not too much fat, salt, or sugar, with a lot of vegetables and a wide range of fruit and veg.




You really will. Eggs, for example, have been controversial forever [0]. And who could forget the USDA Food Pyramid, encouraging people to eat 6-11 servings of carbs [1]? The 90s heralded the low-fat craze with the mantra "Sugar doesn't make you fat. Fat makes you fat." [2] We've swung the other way in recent years with the anti-carb options that started in earnest with Atkins and branched out to keto/paleo.

Nutrition is tricky and is heavily marketed by extremely powerful industries.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=eggs+health+controversy

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Food...

[2] http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-10-25/features/1998298...




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