Yeah, there's a lot of disinformation about health running around. I've been researching nutrition informally for about 10 years. The only really useful patte

Yeah, there's a lot of disinformation about health running around. I've been researching nutrition informally for about 10 years. The only really useful pattern is that most of the disinformation is profitable to someone. It's frustrating how much that disinformation prevents people I know and care about from making even basic improvements to their diet. As for sun and cancer, sunlight is actually more helpful than harmful, and policy recommendations suggestion avoiding the sun are causing problems. http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/03/23/8666.aspx http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/03/23/8666.aspx You can get Vitamin D from supplements though. For the rest of the things on the list, The China Study is where I suggest starting if your just getting into health and nutrition, and prepare to be blown away. I don't think anything I mentioned is particularly disputed or hard to confirm with some Googling. There's opposition though. The dairy industry certainly won't tell you that homogenizing milk puts plaque in your blood vessels, for example. The meat industry doesn't want you to know about sodium nitrate, etc. My argument is just that, for most people, there's something basic they're already doing routinely to sabotage their health, so trying calorie restriction without fixing those first is bad optimization.