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One Diet Doesn’t Fit All: Discovering the Diet that’s Best for You

One Diet Doesn’t Fit All: Navigating the confusion and discovering the diet that’s best for you, by Ocean Robbins. Photograph of a table set for dinner by Kristen Noel
Photograph by Kristen Noel

There is no ‘one-size fits all’ when it comes to diet and nutrition — discover the best diet for the best you.

We have access, today, to more information about diet and disease than any population that’s ever lived. We can review the findings of tens of thousands of studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals, from any laptop or smartphone. 

Thousands of nutrition and diet books are published every year, while billions of websites tell you what to eat and what to avoid.

Unfortunately, many of them are wrong.

I’ve seen different so-called experts delivering wildly conflicting dogma — with some telling people to avoid legumes and açai berries, while others say to eat all calories in two hours of the day; to never go more than three waking hours without eating; to eat nothing blended; to eat everything blended; to go raw; to go 100% cooked; to avoid oils; or to make sure that 90% of calories are from fat. 

We’ve got different folks telling us to eat lots of meat, to go vegan, or to eat nothing but fruit before noon.

When I hear all the conflicting information, I’m reminded of the old saying: 

A man with one watch knows what time

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