<story><title>Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (2007)</title><url>http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xaviers</author><text>I can generalise diets pretty easy. Eat less calories than you burn and loose weight. Eat whatever you want if you can abide by this rule you will loose the weight. But to be healthy. Well you have to eat healthy to be healthy. And that means getting all the fat, carbs and protein your body needs. And what your body needs I agree you can&amp;#x27;t generalise.</text></item><item><author>ENTP</author><text>When I eat carbs, I put on weight. When I don&amp;#x27;t, I lose weight. However, other people I know are the opposite. Quite honestly, I think you can&amp;#x27;t generalise &amp;#x27;diets&amp;#x27; or eating advice as, frankly, it would appear that different people&amp;#x27;s bodies work in slightly different ways. This could explain the vast array of different advice that, often times, seems contradictory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivanhoe</author><text>&amp;gt; if you can abide by this rule you will loose the weight&lt;p&gt;This is the key point and it makes all the difference. You need to be able to stay on the diet for a sufficiently long time, and that&amp;#x27;s why different approaches are needed fro different people. If you eat carbs you need to measure carefully every meal and calculate the calories, which to many people very quickly gets extremely annoying. On low carb diets you don&amp;#x27;t have to. Also there are mood changes depending on the taste of the food that you eat. If you like eating meat and veggies, low-carb diets taste great, you enjoy every meal. It makes it much easier to abide the rules. Also general mental state is important, high stress and depression will sabotage your efforts.&lt;p&gt;Diets are not just about nutrition, that&amp;#x27;s one of the biggest misconceptions. Psychology and physical activities play equally, if not more important role in dieting.</text></comment>
<story><title>Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (2007)</title><url>http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xaviers</author><text>I can generalise diets pretty easy. Eat less calories than you burn and loose weight. Eat whatever you want if you can abide by this rule you will loose the weight. But to be healthy. Well you have to eat healthy to be healthy. And that means getting all the fat, carbs and protein your body needs. And what your body needs I agree you can&amp;#x27;t generalise.</text></item><item><author>ENTP</author><text>When I eat carbs, I put on weight. When I don&amp;#x27;t, I lose weight. However, other people I know are the opposite. Quite honestly, I think you can&amp;#x27;t generalise &amp;#x27;diets&amp;#x27; or eating advice as, frankly, it would appear that different people&amp;#x27;s bodies work in slightly different ways. This could explain the vast array of different advice that, often times, seems contradictory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legulere</author><text>This is true, but it ignores a lot of other things that are going on:&lt;p&gt;Absorption and digestion can greatly vary between humans. (A Common example are algae).&lt;p&gt;What kind of micro and macronutrients you eat will directly and indirectly affect your metabolism.&lt;p&gt;What you eat will affect your hunger.&lt;p&gt;Those and other complex interplays lead to things that are counterintuitive. For instance there recently was some study that drinking soda with artificial sweetener also leads to obesity, if I remember correctly.</text></comment>