Nutrition science is notoriously low quality, so you’re always going to be relying on your own best judgement. 

I give more weight to explanations that can describe the biological mechanisms at play than those that just rely on statistical analysis. 

For us here at home we think a little like that too, only it has been tedious now that we want to go deeper into certain topics.

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I think that’s good advice. Implied in it is the value of having an overarching theory to operate from. 

Yours was “whole foods > processed foods”, which is pretty good. 

Once you have that theory in place, a lot of decisions become automatic and it’s easier to incorporate specific insights as you learn them. 