Humans evolved in the bright tropical or semi-tropical sun. Total avoidance is sure to worsen the already flagrant deficiency of vitamin D in modern Americans. Although data do support the warning that a sunburn is bad for health, not so with sun exposure without burning.
Avoid fats
Who hasn't heard the "cut your saturated fat" or "eat low-fat" mantra over and over again?
This message has been repeated countless times over the last 20 years by "official" agencies like the USDA, American Heart Association, and others. They have found willing partners in the food industry, who have populated grocery shelves with all manner of low-fat cookies, breakfast cereals, salad dressings, and the like.
The corollary to the eat low-fat advice is to eat plenty of "healthy whole grains." Americans have complied. This false notion arose from the clinical studies of the 1970s and 1980s that showed that replacing foods made with white enriched flour with whole wheat or other whole grain flour led to reduction in colon cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. That's true. What is not true is to assume that if a very bad thing (white enriched flour products like white bread and buns) are replaced with a less bad thing (whole grain products), then more and more of the less bad thing must be better. It clearly is not.
With this health booby trap, we've suffered the worst epidemic of obesity and diabetes the world has ever seen. Plenty of "healthy whole grains" increases appetite, triggers insulin to extremes, skyrockets blood sugar, provokes inflammation (like c-reactive protein), makes you gain weight.
Coming next: Solutions to the health booby traps
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