My favourite nutrition article

[Gary]

I love this article, it's both very, very simple but also detailed enough that you can understand why nutrition is so confused now when cultures managed fine before.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=87%20%20)

I could summarize it because it's a big article but it's good enough that I think it deserves a full read. Both beginners and more advanced trainees should find something useful here.

[Yohan]

Dude this article is boss. Not just from a training standpoint, but from a historical and scientific standpoint. It's a terribly long read and I'm about halfway through. You'll thank yourself if you read it.

[Gary]

Haha, it took me a while to get through it too!

Totally worth it though.

[flaming]

I can eat ridiculous amounts of nuts and seeds without feeling full so I stopped buying them, the same with grains.
Whats healthier organic lard or vegtable lard?
Plant based oil, or organic butter?

[Ad McG]

I agree with an awful lot of what he says but the fact that he prefers meat as somewhat of a side dish turns me off the article completely. Meat should be the centre of most diets IMO, surrounded by the plants he is talking about.

[Gary]

I don't think he sees meat as an optional addition, more that it should be included but not dominate a meal from a mass point of view. I'm pretty sure that's just against the 'steak on a lettuce leaf' version of a balanced meal.

The guy is definitely not anti-meat, this article (http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=14) for example is about a calf he buys to be slaughtered for profit as well as getting a few free steaks out of it. If anything he's very pro organic meat and production methods back to what they were 100 years ago instead of the modern cost effective methods.