In my experience, Nutrition is an area where the mental shortcuts that humans tend to use are counterproductive (e.g. looking to "experts", trusting in "conventional wisdom").
Do your own research, and give it some thought.
(You might start by looking into "Paleo." You will see quacks there (as elsewhere) but generally speaking, its proponents seem better grounded in scientific understanding.)
Paleo has basically no scientific support for extending lifespan (which I would assume is at least part of "improving your health")
"...a Pubmed search using the keywords “Paleolithic diet” [returns about] 67 hits. Of those 67 hits only 9 were papers that involved actual human or animal application of the diet, or even discussion of same... Nine papers of poor quality and not a single clinical trial demonstrating reduced morbidity or mortality"
* Vegetarian Adventists consume fewer “doughnuts, coffee, and eggs” than omnivore Adventists
* Vegetarian Adventists tend to have similar health outcomes as Mormons, who are not vegetarian but do abstain from alcohol and drugs and have strong sense of community
* Recent re-analysis of the Adventist Health Studies show the fish eaters – not the vegans or vegetarians – have the lowest relative risk for all-cause mortality (0.78 versus 0.89 for lacto-ovo vegetarians)
* Study found that non-vegetarian Adventists eat more doughnuts, drink more coffee, and eat more eggs than the vegetarians
* Researchers’ conclusion: “Among Seventh-day Adventists, vegetarians are healthier than nonvegetarians but this cannot be ascribed only to the absence of meat.”
“Associations between diet and cancer, ischemic heart disease, and all-cause mortality non-Hispanic white California Seventh-day Adventists” by Gary E. Fraser, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 70 No. 3
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In my experience, Nutrition is an area where the mental shortcuts that humans tend to use are counterproductive (e.g. looking to "experts", trusting in "conventional wisdom").
Do your own research, and give it some thought.
(You might start by looking into "Paleo." You will see quacks there (as elsewhere) but generally speaking, its proponents seem better grounded in scientific understanding.)
Paleo has basically no scientific support for extending lifespan (which I would assume is at least part of "improving your health")
"...a Pubmed search using the keywords “Paleolithic diet” [returns about] 67 hits. Of those 67 hits only 9 were papers that involved actual human or animal application of the diet, or even discussion of same... Nine papers of poor quality and not a single clinical trial demonstrating reduced morbidity or mortality"
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Which is the 3rd part in this series:
http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/08/18/interventive-ger...
* Vegetarian Adventists consume fewer “doughnuts, coffee, and eggs” than omnivore Adventists
* Vegetarian Adventists tend to have similar health outcomes as Mormons, who are not vegetarian but do abstain from alcohol and drugs and have strong sense of community
* Recent re-analysis of the Adventist Health Studies show the fish eaters – not the vegans or vegetarians – have the lowest relative risk for all-cause mortality (0.78 versus 0.89 for lacto-ovo vegetarians)
* Study found that non-vegetarian Adventists eat more doughnuts, drink more coffee, and eat more eggs than the vegetarians
* Researchers’ conclusion: “Among Seventh-day Adventists, vegetarians are healthier than nonvegetarians but this cannot be ascribed only to the absence of meat.” “Associations between diet and cancer, ischemic heart disease, and all-cause mortality non-Hispanic white California Seventh-day Adventists” by Gary E. Fraser, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 70 No. 3
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