How do you guys eat? What do you guys think about nutrition? What do you think is healthiest, tastiest, easiest, hardest? Does common modern wisdom have nutrition figured out now, or are we still in the dark? Should we look to tradition for the answers, or science? Everybody knows there's something wrong about the way many 1st world societies are eating, so... what is it?

I know there must be veg*ns out there somewhere in the crowd, and I at least can tackle the issue from the low-carb side, and I know there are plenty of people here in the middle of that spectrum and just as many who don't give a rat's ass what goes down their gullet, so surely we have something to discuss between us all.


My take on ideal nutrition follows a paleolithic model: we are genetically designed to eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, mushrooms, and meat. That's it. This suggests a macronutrient ratio surprisingly high in protein and fat, and paradoxically both low in carbs and high in fiber thanks to my impressive vegetable consumption. I think experience has shown that every human innovation meant to "improve" on what nature has provided us has blown up in our faces. We can all agree that aspartame, sucralose, olestra, hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, and other hypermodern food innovation marvels are bad for our health, but I think what many many people forget is that just a few thousand years ago we added grains to our diet, something that never used to be in our diets, something we'd been living for hundreds of thousands of years without. How can we expect such a sudden, rich and bountiful source of dietary carbohydrates to have not had a drastic impact on modern human health?

My thoughts. I want to hear yours, and take this thread where you will.