Here we go again. A Harvard teacher said "coconut is poison" and lit up the internet. It's a replay of last summer's hoopla, when USA Today published an article saying coconut oil has never been healthy.
Just like in politics, proclamations about the goodness or evilness of foods are also becoming increasingly polarized. "It's a super food!" "No! It's poison!"
So if you haven't read my other blog post, I've just started a 6-week keto experiment where I'll only be eating 15 grams of net carbs per day. Yikes! That means my carbs will only come from kale, spinach, broccoli, etc.
In preparation for my farewell to carbs for 6-weeks (and because I got invited to a taco party on Sunday, conveniently ;-) I decided to make fresh corn salsa.
If you know me by now, you know that I'm the anti-diet nutrition coach. I've never counted calories or grams of anything because I just don't believe that's a natural way to eat.
We'd be living in a utopia if the world of nutrition advice were informed by unbiased research and by people whose sole interest were human health. That is NOT the reality.
Sadly, the world of nutrition is clouded by interests other promoting health.
In Part I, we discussed the fats that we need to eat more of and which we should avoid altogether.
Yes, fat is essential for health. So what happened?
For starters, nutrition science is a hugely imperfect field. It's impossible to completely isolate variables and determine an exact "causation."