Stardate 20010719.1335 (On Screen): Be wary of nutrition fads. Most of my life I've been getting told that saturated fats were evil, and that polyunsaturated fats were better for me. Recent studies have cast doubts on the "good cholesterol/bad cholesterol" theory, and now it seems that polyunsaturated fats may be implicated in the puzzling rise in the incidence of asthma, especially among children. The one unambiguous nutritional fact I believe is that breastfeeding is good for babies during the first six months of life. Aside from that, nearly everything you eat has both good and bad consequences. While it's true that some diets will kill us faster, we're all dying from what we eat, slowly, and eventually we'll all be dead because of it (if something else doesn't kill us first).
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