What diet should you be following?

Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Last winter came the news that a low-fat diet, long believed to protect against breast cancer, may do no such thing — this from the monumental, federally financed Women’s Health Initiative, which has also found no link between a low-fat diet and rates ofcoronary disease. The year before we learned that dietary fiber might not, as we had been confidently told, help prevent colon cancer. Just last fall two prestigious studies on omega-3 fats published at the same time presented us with strikingly different conclusions. While the Institute of Medicine stated that “it is uncertain how much these omega-3s contribute to improving health” (and they might do the opposite if you get them from mercury-contaminated fish), a Harvard study declared that simply by eating a couple of servings of fish each week (or by downing enough fish oil), you could cut your risk of dying from a heart attack by more than a third — a stunningly hopeful piece of news. It’s no wonder that omega-3 fatty acids are poised to become the oat bran of 2007, as food scientists micro-encapsulate fish oil and algae oil and blast them into such formerly all-terrestrial foods as bread and tortillas, milk and yogurt and cheese, all of which will soon, you can be sure, sprout fishy new health claims. (Remember the rule?)


The article above is a reminder of the ever changing information that studies produce about food.  The fact is coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death among Americans, type II diabetes has in the past thirty years increase forty percent and obesity is at a at time high among youth and adults.  Since the 1980's food has been packaged with slogans of low fat, no trans fat, 100% natural and organic.  Every time we turn around what was once considered healthy now is taboo.  When people started to pay attention to high cholesterol many people stopped eating butter, eggs and anything dairy really.  Now we see commercials about California cheese and eggs are nutritional for you are you getting your daily allowance.  Prime example "Got Milk"