logicp_writings/new/DietaryGuidelines.md

Dietary Guidelines

"How can you be so bold as to say that you reject the mainstream view that has been vetted by experts before being advised by the governing authority?"

I am so fortunate to have learned early on that you cannot blindly rely on recommendations, be it from experts or authorities. Yes, you should hear them, but you should have shed enough ignorance so as to be able to understand the meaning, why it was conveyed, and within what range of certainty it is likely to be. You should take it a step further and make yourself capable of forming an opinion, and then comparing.

If we look at how nutrition has been destroyed, is it any wonder? Take a look at the most nutritious and bioavailable foods, which we ate as we evolved and differentiated ourselves from tree-dwellers. These were foods that couldn't possibly be any more perfectly-suited to our consumption, however, we have declared them as the source of our most common fatal diseases. From there, we go back and claim that, in their stead, we are to consume processed foods that are more difficult and less efficient to assimilate, often in forms which would have never existed in nature, and that we are to consider these as being healthier choices. We do this in a society where everyone repeats and agrees that processed food is a bad thing, yet they can become completely unable to identify that the food they're being presented with is exactly that, perhaps even more hideously processed than forms which they more readily recognize as processed. This is all enabled because we've normalized the practice of superficial enumeration in environments and domains which are not just that of the layperson, but of professionals in pertinent fields; this affords many the cognitive means of considering assumptions rigorously validated.

Perhaps this is the key for getting others to wake up. Everyone eats everyday, and that's always an opportunity to remember that the state and pop culture failed everyone on this most fundamental piece of information: you can eat animal fat.