Tasty Tidbits and
Dastardly Dietary Dogma

     Most books, articles, and web sites on diet and nutrition, especially those on "alternative" diets, are written by folks who, although quite possibly sincere, could not pass an 8th grade science quiz, or add 1/2 + 1/3.  Thus, they generally are full of nonsense, errors of fact, faulty (or no) logic, unsupported rumors, innumeracy, errors copied from other credibility-challenged sources, or the unsupported belief systems of various fad-diet microcultures.

     Worse, most orthodox nutritional texts tout the orthodox party line, conceptually sponsored by the USDA, which is nothing more than a trade organization of the agricultural/meat/dairy/grain industries.  The "scientists" supporting the Big Four Food Group mythical paradigm, although they may have some limited expertise in a narrow, restricted field, are so ill-educated in the broader sense as to actually believe that animal flesh, milk, eggs, and grains are useful 'foods' for our frugivorous ape species when there is not one iota of scientifically credible evidence supporting these traditional, profit-oriented beliefs.  
     That humans are indeed frugivorous apes is evidenced by the fact that the "genetic distance" between chimpanzees and humans is only a scant 1.6%, and clearly, that difference is expressed in the physical differences, not in inherent digestive and systemic biochemistry.
     In fact, all scientific evidence, not unsupported opinion, refutes these dogmatic beliefs in the Big Four Food Groups.  Yes, even "scientists" have been so conditioned by their life-long cultural dietary programming, starting at birth, that they have totally lost their objectivity in this most fundamental concept of human diet.

     This page will link to analyses and correction of some of these totally absurd, absolutely unsupportable, yet annoyingly enduring myths, in addition to providing other interesting information.

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