Everything in Moderation? Maybe Not So Much
For a long time diet experts have told us to vary our food choices because eating too much of the same thing supposedly slowed weight loss down. Well now it turns out you can probably eat just about whatever you want, whether it's toast with jelly four times a day, spinach and kale (as if), or my favorite, pralines and cream. Of course, you have to eat everything in moderation, but now experts are finding that it's maybe not so important to vary our diets. Long a directive of Weight Watchers (which believes eating too much of the same thing inhibits your body's ability to drop that weight), now having diversity in your diet may not be so important. Now it seems doing that won't slow down your metabolism, as always thought. "Eat everything in moderation’ has been a long-standing dietary recommendation, but without much empiric supporting evidence in populations. We wanted to characterize new metrics of diet diversity and evaluate their association with m...