Diet camps such as keto, paleo, carnivore and plant-based are identities rather than answers, and what to eat should follow the evidence instead.

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• Nutrition is one of the domains where beliefs track group identity rather than evidence, so an expert's claims there deserve more suspicion than in physics. SGStephan Guyenet30 Aug 2018
• Recommending a diet to the public before the science behind it is settled is the same mistake the USDA made with low-fat advice in the 1980s. SGStephan Guyenet3 Jul 2018
• The correct statement of the evidence on keto diets for schizophrenia is that a cure may be possible, even if that seems unlikely. GTGary Taubes8 Feb 2026
• The timing of carbohydrate intake across the day probably does not matter much. LNLayne Norton12 Aug 2024

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