| Aeolus451 said: Oh lordy. I mistyped and put one little ietter into a word that doesn't belong there and all of my points that I made are now debunked. I never mentioned omega 3s in any of my posts....so what are you talking about? Supplements are for people who for some reason or another don't get enough of something in their diet. Normal people who eat a normal balanced diet don't need to take them. |
I was just double-checking what you meant, for all I know you meant to say "gimberish" as it's a slang word from some dialect of English that I'm unfamiliar with. If you re-read what I typed I approached it with curiosity, despite your misrepresenting it. And I've been atempting to address all of your points, but you aren't giving me much to go on as you're making assertions that fly in the face of the best scientific evidence, and offer no reason for me to question the science.
Omega 3s are one of the most common and popular supplements, but fair enough I think I was thinking of another commenter when I addressed that. Thank you for pointing that out.
Supplements are for people who don't get enough of something in their diet. But the missing piece of that statement is that the easiest way to have nutrient deficiencies is to eat foods with a high caloric density and/or a bad nutrient/calorie ratio. Those foods are overwhelmingly meat, dairy, eggs, and refined carbohydrates. And note that last point, I acknowledge that processed carbs (white bread, white sugar, etc.) can be as bad as the meat/dairy/eggs when it comes to health. If health is the goal, it's about eating whole foods, with a focus on foods with a good nutrient/calorie ratio, and a lack of negatives (such as cholesterol and saturated fat), and making sure to "eat the rainbow". Foods of different colours tend to be high in different kinds of nutrients, not to mention the phytochemicals that give foods their colours are themselves important for optimal health. So by eating the rainbow you're diversifying your diet tremendously. And that's impossible to do well on a diet heavy in meat dairy and eggs (especially since phytonutrients are only found in plant foods).
And then we talk about the gut bacteria/microbiome, which is enhanced by eating fibre (only found in plant foods) and suppressed by eating animal products. If you recognize the importance of the gut, that instantly ends the discussion of which foods are healthiest. Fibre rich foods improve your microbiome, and foods of animal origin reduce the diversity of your intestinal bacteria.
