Nutrition Related Topics

Having had a long journey learning nutrition and having been bamboozled by propaganda... I'm now (at age 65) reaching enlightenment.   



It's pretty clear that whole-food plant based diets are healthy.  Nutrition / diet is not simply weight management.  Body weight is mostly thermodynamics of calories consumed vs. calories expended.  Although there are complications on both sides.  Calories consumed are not all the same, and calories expended depends more on resting metabolism than the calorie expenditure of any specific exercise, although exercise (and weights to build muscle mass) does alter the metabolism, as do a variety of nutrients.  But.  Keto, low carb, paleo etc can produce weight loss.  However they many not be promoting health.



NutritionFacts.org | The Latest Nutrition Related Topics

Dr. Greger has a lot of phenomenal evidence based research.  He is the author of How Not to Die



There is some great documentary propaganda available; e.g. the Game Changers (Presented by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic and Chris Paul — a revolutionary new film about meat, protein and strength.) and Forks over Knives



Pretty simply, as Michael Pollan puts it, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”



Blue Zones has slightly varied diet/nutrition advice (less vegan but mostly plants; pro "Mediterranean diet" including red wine [yay!]) as well as overall lessons from the Buettner journalism covering Okinawa, Nicoya (Costa Rica), Loma Linda, CA (Seventh day Adventist community), Ikaria, Greece, and Sardinia, which have large numbers (per capita) of healthy centenarians.  We are excited because Monterey County is a target of the Blue Zones project.