I agree with you that it is complex. Certainly we agree that Calories are just rough abstraction to simplify a complex system in a way that is manageable for da

I agree with you that it is complex. Certainly we agree that Calories are just rough abstraction to simplify a complex system in a way that is manageable for day-to-day use. What I am saying is that a blanket rejection of anything arbitrarily deemed to be "impure" is not good. > we are eating things now that historically we have not and that alone is a good reason to be suspect of it So, in other words, "Reject modernity, embrace tradition"