Nick Szabo  🔑

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 …

@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 …