Your immune system.

[Woodznutz]

Your guts, and especially your immune system, like familiar foods, eaten regularly. So why do nutritionists and dieticians recommend eating a wide variety of foods?

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[braalian]

Eating a reasonable variety of nutrients has obvious health benefits.

I’m not sure how true the idea that “your immune system likes familiar foods” is. Even if it is true, surely it being “familiar” with a balanced diet is better than it being “familiar” with eating Ramen everyday or something.

Eating healthy isn’t very complicated. We all know what a balanced meal is.

Stuff like this always sounds all too much like doing mental gymnastics in an effort to find a way to work around the basic truth in favor of some new fad diet that says it’s okay to eat foods we know aren’t the healthiest

People really, really hate the basic truth that a healthy diet doesn’t include their favorite junk foods, and it’s a huge and
lucrative business coming up with some new diet that tells them they don’t have to eat the boring old foods we all know are healthier

 

[Woodznutz]

Eating healthy isn’t very complicated. We all know what a balanced meal is.

Knowing is easy, doing is where we fail.

 

[braalian]

Knowing is easy, doing is where we fail.

Right

Which is why fad diets that promise loopholes or work-arounds are such a big business.

 

[Woodznutz]

Right

Which is why fad diets that promise loopholes or work-arounds are such a big business.

Some "fad" diets are actually pretty good. Sadly, they are soon abandoned by most.