>>76424980>The main principles of healthy eating guidelines have remained remarkably consistent for almost 80 yearsthe introduction of those academic guidelines coincided with an explosion of obesity and heart disease. Because interested parties can always find corrupt academics who will peddle any kind of garbage when paid enough for it, which is how we end up with recommendations to eat 11 servings of grain per day and heavily oxidized sneed oils in everything. We can see the same phenomenon in other academic fields like History.
The ancient Greeks already pretty much figured out nutrition. "If you want a body fit for the Olympics, subject yourself to a disciplined training regimen, drink less wine and stay away from sweet cakes" is what is written in 2,000 year-old self-help books. Common sense and tradition has served us much better than academia.
