There is no optimal diet. If I ever start preaching one, I must really need the cash. As I discussed in the Stability letter, these human bodies we’re in are excellent at getting what we need out of the foods we put into them. They make adjustments all the time based on our diets. Traditionally, humans have flourished on high-protein diets, on high-carb diets, eating meat or seafood or as vegetarians. In studies of the “Blue Zones” — regions of the world with the longest-lived and healthiest elderly populations — it’s clear that healthy diets look markedly different from each other. Some of the regions, like Ikaria in Greece, follow something close to the Mediterranean diet we’ve heard so much about, with lots of olive oil, seafood, and red wine, but others like the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica mostly eat corn, beans, white rice, and fruit. Though similarities exist between the regions, it would be misleading to draw from that diversity any sort of prescriptive diet.
The Optimal Diet
The Optimal Diet
The Optimal Diet
There is no optimal diet. If I ever start preaching one, I must really need the cash. As I discussed in the Stability letter, these human bodies we’re in are excellent at getting what we need out of the foods we put into them. They make adjustments all the time based on our diets. Traditionally, humans have flourished on high-protein diets, on high-carb diets, eating meat or seafood or as vegetarians. In studies of the “Blue Zones” — regions of the world with the longest-lived and healthiest elderly populations — it’s clear that healthy diets look markedly different from each other. Some of the regions, like Ikaria in Greece, follow something close to the Mediterranean diet we’ve heard so much about, with lots of olive oil, seafood, and red wine, but others like the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica mostly eat corn, beans, white rice, and fruit. Though similarities exist between the regions, it would be misleading to draw from that diversity any sort of prescriptive diet.