Writing at Motherboard Kaleigh Rogers throws in the towel on what’s a good diet:
Are organic foods healthier for you than conventional foods? How about genetically-modified crops? If you’re not totally sure about the answer to these questions, you’re not alone.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows the US public is very divided on issues of food and nutrition. But if you look at a controversial report—which the British Medical Journal just doubled-down on—on the science behind our nutrition guidelines, it’s not too surprising that none of us seems to know what we ought to be eating.
I honestly don’t know what Americans should be eating but I’ll put in my two cents. They should be eating less. A lot less. I wonder if people realize just how little the dietary guidelines of roughly 2,000 calories a day for adult men and 1,600 for adult women are? The number of calories in a Big Mac Meal (Big Mac, small fries, and a small Coke) is about 1,100.
If we ate a much greater variety of foods in significantly smaller quantity, we’d probably be better off.
I’ve mentioned it before but my mom was an early fan of Adelle Davis. Needless to say nobody would trade lunches with us in school.
