Nutrition is...well, sorta just like everything else

Great post over at peggynature's livejournal about nutrition, fad diets, and motivating factors regarding having a healthier diet. My favorite part is this, which mirrors my (much more limited) experience of learning about nutrition:

"After all the euphoria over the ideas of mysterious enzymes and food combinations, or conspiracies to keep the information about low-carb out of the public's deserving hands, it was a bit of a let-down, and more than a bit of relief. Like everything else in life, it seemed, the truth about nutrition boiled down to the moderate, the conditional, the totally boring every-day grey of science-nerd shit. In order to find inspiration in it, you'd have to cock your head and squint a little, the way you do on those rare occasions when something like rain or a freshly-washed glass on the drainboard gives you pause to consider its modest loveliness."


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