I distrust all ‘studies’ when it comes to nutrition and life style choices. I am of the ‘what worked for the grandmas would work for you too’ camp. We are our g

I distrust all ‘studies’ when it comes to nutrition and life style choices. I am of the ‘what worked for the grandmas would work for you too’ camp. We are our genes and studying ancestor lifestyle(with tweaks to accommodate modernization, of course) is most logical. Example: I have never been for the anti-carb lifestyle. I come from an uninterrupted line of long lived rice eaters. I feel worse off when I have wheat..due to the gluten probably. I am primed for rice. I remember a time when I went to a nutritionist and she said that given my age and weight, I should have no more than 1/4 cup of cooked rice. That’s 4 tbsp, ok? And I told her that my daily rice budget would be spent just tasting the biryani for seasoning while cooking it ..even before I can sit down for lunch. Doh. A rice diet wouldn’t kill me but that bowl of raw lettuce leaves with no nutritional value and smothered with high fat high sugar dressing probably would.