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I understood the post differently. For example, I am not overweight, never have been. I am interested in reading about healthy eating. I'm not interested in los

I understood the post differently. For example, I am not overweight, never have been. I am interested in reading about healthy eating. I'm not interested in losing weight, as that would be unhealthy for me. Yet, all I can ever find is how to eat in order to lose weight. Thus the two issues (health and weight loss) are conflated.

_yb2s 4y ago
Look up the book perfect health diet
fsloth 4y ago
Generally people conflate health and weight because globally, for a very large number of people, this is the main problem. As societies move to western diets, the average person becomes overweight and is diagnosed with one or more health problems directly related to obesity (pick one or more from my list above). This is the easy problem to diagnose. The connection between nutrition and health, if obesity is not your concern, seems indeed to be far more nuanced and complex. I'm not sure if anyone has come up with anything better that every expert could agree on except "eat little bit of everything". I suppose fasting seems to improve biological markers even for non-obese people so it's not only about weight loss as such, though.
thomascgalvin 4y ago
> I am interested in reading about healthy eating.... Yet, all I can ever find is how to eat in order to lose weight. I suspect that this is largely due to the fact that industrial food owns the food science in this country, and in most of the developed world. For decades, we were fed (no pun intended) a Food Pyramid that is a blatant lie, because it correlated to how monied interests wanted to feed the nation. I had my annual physical last week, and my doctor told me that the consensus is now "eat whole, natural, unprocessed foods as much as possible, and probably cut back on meat." That seems reasonable, on its face. It also seems prohibitively expensive for many people. I'm afraid that there isn't a great solution to this problem in this country, almost by design.

_yb2s 4y ago

Look up the book perfect health diet

fsloth 4y ago

Generally people conflate health and weight because globally, for a very large number of people, this is the main problem. As societies move to western diets, the average person becomes overweight and is diagnosed with one or more health problems directly related to obesity (pick one or more from my list above). This is the easy problem to diagnose. The connection between nutrition and health, if obesity is not your concern, seems indeed to be far more nuanced and complex. I'm not sure if anyone has come up with anything better that every expert could agree on except "eat little bit of everything". I suppose fasting seems to improve biological markers even for non-obese people so it's not only about weight loss as such, though.

thomascgalvin 4y ago

> I am interested in reading about healthy eating.... Yet, all I can ever find is how to eat in order to lose weight. I suspect that this is largely due to the fact that industrial food owns the food science in this country, and in most of the developed world. For decades, we were fed (no pun intended) a Food Pyramid that is a blatant lie, because it correlated to how monied interests wanted to feed the nation. I had my annual physical last week, and my doctor told me that the consensus is now "eat whole, natural, unprocessed foods as much as possible, and probably cut back on meat." That seems reasonable, on its face. It also seems prohibitively expensive for many people. I'm afraid that there isn't a great solution to this problem in this country, almost by design.