Seems more like an adjustment of your idea of what constitutes "food", so we're talking "definitions" rather than a "diet". It seems merely sane to consider as

Seems more like an adjustment of your idea of what constitutes "food", so we're talking "definitions" rather than a "diet". It seems merely sane to consider as "Not-Food" slurries or cakes of highly processed or synthetic carbon-based chemicals that are only distantly sourced from plants or animals, and to consider as "Is-Food" items that are very directly harvested from plants or animals. Look at bread: one must work quite hard to find ANY "bread" product that does not contain sugar in significant quantities. That is not bread, it is cake. Sugar in significant amounts has toxic effects on the body. Look at mayonnaise: most of it has significant quantities of Omega-6 oils. This is because the actual recipes for mayonnaise contain omega-3s, but Omega-3s have short shelf life. Omega-6s also have substantially toxic effects over the long term, yet almost everything on the grocery shelves is made with them. There are scores more examples in basic staples. The food supply has been massively corrupted primarily for the benefit of the manufacturers, to increase sales and convenience. That does not mean that it is still actual food. Literally, merely changing my basic cheese sandwiches to actual (non-sugar) bread and eliminating store mayo (usually using just olive oil or occasionally mixing mayo fresh) has had a substantially positive effect on my health. It also tastes FAR better. So, I don't consider it to be a diet to merely select actual food instead of the industrial products sold as food — I still eat nominally the same sandwich recipe every lunch as before, just with real ingredients, and I get better enjoyment and results.