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(1,219 posts)Just because you don't want to eat that way, there's no reason to try to discredit what works for so many others. The harm caused to many by eating the SAD occurs over decades. It's not something that happens overnight for most of us. Auto-immune diseases take years to develop. I hope you never have one, but the likelihood of ending up with one has increased exponentially since the introduction of the low fat, eat your grains meme.
You could do much more good in providing the science if you actually read Gary Taubes book, as it's loaded with 200 years of science about obesity and nutrition. He actually spent years going over the existing research into nutrition to figure out where we'd gone so wrong in the advice given to people about their diets. Its' not an easy read, but well worth it.
I can easily find anything I want on the web to discredit absolutely everything, but that just results in inertia. I and others have improved our health enormously, most after extensive research and experimentation into what works for us. I don't believe that anyone is saying that one size fits all or that one diets will work wonders for everyone. However, if changing the way we eat results in better health, for us, why would you try to discredit it?