> many a post on HN convinced me that it's not true, even though it sounds much more obvious than typical dietetary nonsense you'll hear from your random friend

> many a post on HN convinced me that it's not true, even though it sounds much more obvious than typical dietetary nonsense you'll hear from your random friend. HN is a place that may be full of people who's brilliant in their field, which unfortunately #1) has nothing to do with fitness #2) it's correlated with being "not exactly fit", so certainly this is not the right place to establish beliefs in the fitness field.