David ex Machina

Many different diets, or ‘healthy lifestyles,’ come and go like the wind. Everything from drinking milk to smoking to exercise has been disputed as being healthy. The problem is we still don’t fully understand the biochemical pathways of the human body, so it’s easy to think that drinking water, or insert-favorite-nutrient-here , promotes better health. Misidentification of causality versus correlation. As such, many diets follow the trendy cycle: offering a glimmer of hope which is then vetted by some critical contingent of people, becomes popular in the mainstream, and then fades away as a new emerging diet replaces it. Look at all the recent diets in the past few years: Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, Juice Cleanses, Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, Zone Diet, Vegetarian Diet, Vegan Diet, Raw Foods Diet, Paleo (Caveman) Diet, The Low Carb Diet, The Slow Carb Diet... Diets feed on the human emotions of survival, self-interest, and discipline. However, people are lazy and wan...