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Old 08-02-2010, 12:26 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Table 5 View Post
I think traditional diets work....as long as people are active. Over the centuries you could eat all that great fatty, energy-rich stuff when you were out working the fields all day or doing manual labor. You needed the energy and you worked it off. Today though, if all you do is sit in front a computer for 8 hours a day, munching on camembert might not be ideal.

At the end of the day though, not matter what, I'd rather eat fatty real food than anything chemically processed.
And yet it's still us, practitioners of a 99% Western diet, that largely suffer from obesity, and not the rest of the world that still eats a traditional diet while working in modern employment.

I read someplace that the science of nutrition today is near what surgery was in the 18th century. Rather dubious at times and always changing.
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