> a healthy diet really can just be summed up as "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" Absolutely not. We do know enough about malnutrition to say that this

> a healthy diet really can just be summed up as "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" Absolutely not. We do know enough about malnutrition to say that this statement is false. It has also been demonstrated that "zero carb" diets have all sorts of short-term desirable outcomes, such as weight loss or controlling diabetes. Your "don't eat too much, mostly plants" diet fails here. What we don't know is the long-term outcomes of that (or any other) diet. Frankly, I'd rather risk a shorter life than continue a life of obesity, which is also associated with higher mortality.