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Originally Posted by Andrew Brunelle  I am here to present a situation about health books and fad diet books. Here is the problem I see: If all diet books are to be treated equally, then we have a big problem. Most of them give conflicting advice to other books I read, so I get to the point where I do not know what to eat. One book says this is bad, while the other says that same food item is good. |
Why on Earth would anyone treat all diet books equally? Some are well-written, internally consistent, with many citations, based on years of experience with the recommendations, etc; others are slapped together by people with no experience, taking little care in the process.
evaluate.htm: How to search the web, by fravia+: evaluate is worth reading, although, or even because, the tone and view ('"I imagine" - he said - "that you already know that most of the books... and data... around us are next to useless, don't you?"') is rather different from the stevepavlina.com norm.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Brunelle I guess you could call this the common thread approach. Look for the common thread throughout and you can be almost completely sure those work. I am not one to put the nutritional experts up on a pedastal as what works for one person certainly may or may not work for another. What I have noticed is cutting out certain foods and relying on the healhty choice vs. the processed choice does work very well. That should be common sense anyway. I guess you can look at diet and lifestyle as common sense anyway. Let me know what you think about all these differing viewpoints and the common threads even the most opposing viewpoints have in common. |
Your approach is sensible. I think the value of "common sense" books is that common sense varies widely, and that reminders can be helpful.