[Stratos]

When it comes to nutrition, there's always alot of rumors and contradictious research results flying around. "Don't eat X or Y, it gives you cancer" and so on. Food related research is probably the most popular research topic to print in magazines and newspapers.

Generally, it appears that any bad effect of a certain type of food takes a long time to present itself, or you have to consume massive amounts before you notice any changes.

As for diets, there's something called the Paleolithic diet or Stone Age diet, which try to recreate the diet the average stone age man ate, with the argument that this is the kind of food that mankind has eaten for most of her history and thus is "designed" to eat. Roughly speaking, it involves more fish and lean meat, fruits and vegetables, but less or no cereals, rice, potatoes and dairy products.

[ 10-21-2004, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: Stratos ]