Simple Science of Healthy Eating

Click here for an up-to-date review of what science knows about healthful diet, written by two public health experts at Yale. The gist: don’t be distracted by the latest popular diet or the tendency of publicized studies to contradict details of previous advice. The basics have been established and understood for a long time. As Michael Pollen has said, "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

Diet is established among the most important influences on health in modern societies. Injudicious diet figures among the leading causes of premature death and chronic disease. … The weight of evidence strongly supports a…diet of minimally processed foods close to nature, predominantly plants. Efforts to improve public health through diet are forestalled not for want of knowledge…but for distractions associated with exaggerated claims, and our failure to convert what we reliably know into what we routinely do.

Can We Say What Diet Is Best for Health?

Annual Review of Public Health

Vol. 35: 83-103 March 2014

D.L. Katz, Prevention Research Center

Yale University School of Public Health

S. Meller

Yale University School of Medicine

May you live long and prosper.

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