Most nutrition advice, stripped of ideology and marketing, converges on a few principles: eat mostly whole foods, don’t eat constantly, eat enough protein, reduce ultra-processed foods, and stop when satisfied. The debates about keto versus low-fat, vegan versus carnivore — these are second-order details. If you nail the basics, most approaches work reasonably well. Michael Pollan compressed the whole thing into seven words — eat food, not too much, mostly plants — which is worth having and worth being exact about: it is a stated rule from a journalist’s argument, not a trial finding.
This companion covers the conflicting noise, the converging core principles, the simplified framework, why details overwhelm, action over information, the permission to stop researching, and a simple executable plan. (5 min read)
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