tl;dr Eat what your ancestors ate. Generic diet advice is bad advice. http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v13/n3/full/5201297a.html … http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v46/n5/abs/ng.2939.html … http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377015/?report=classic …
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@NickSzabo4 The generic advice "drink milk!" is obviously wrong, considering lactase nonpersistence. … -
@NickSzabo4 … But the generic advice "eat no carbs!" is not obviously wrong. -
@zooko Ppl w/low-carb ancstrs ~ maladapted to carbs, low-milk ancstrs ~ maladapted to milk. Ppl w/low-cholesterol ancstrs?#MuchYetToLearn -
@NickSzabo4 I'm arguing that *even* descendants of early farmers improve health by cutting carbs. Perhaps others improve even more. -
@zooko Where's you're evidence for that claim? (Studies that include non-early-farmer descendants obviously aren't good evidence for it). -
@NickSzabo4 I will provide some evidence. But first, I'd like to argue that the burden of proof should be in the other direction. … -
@NickSzabo4 … Even absent some specific measurements or experiments on some modern strains of human, I think the default assumption … -
@zooko No, it's a terrible assumption. Even simplest carb digestion genetic difference gives factor of 8 different risk of obesity. - 2 more replies
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@NickSzabo4 Paradoxically, good generic advice. Corollary, "what you eat" should eat likewise, all the way down the food chain. -
@NickSzabo4 Escaping that confounding factor allows the erroneous conclusions we've been told about dairy, meat, etc.
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