![]() ![]() It’s still trying to figure out exactly what happens in your body when you sip a soda, or what is going on deep in the soul of a carrot to make it so good for you, or why in the world you have so many neurons – brain cells! – in your stomach, of all places. I learned that in fact science knows a lot less about nutrition than you would expect – that in fact nutrition science is, to put it charitably, a very young science. The deeper I delved into the confused and confusing thicket of nutritional science, sorting through the long-running fats versus carb wars, the fiber skirmishes and the raging dietary supplement debates, the simpler the picture gradually became. ![]() ![]() Most of the time when I embark on such an investigation, it quickly becomes clear that matters are much more complicated and ambiguous - several shades grayer - than I thought going in. This is what happened to author Michael Pollan a few years ago when he started doing research to try and figure out what he should be eating. ![]() What if you read enough to see patterns develop, to realize that when you stripped away all the confusing bits that maybe the skeleton underneath was actually pretty simple? What if eating right wasn’t actually all that complicated? ![]()
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