Dr. David Allison
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Mar
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Just eat low carb.
Just eat low fat.
Just eat all natural foods.
Only eat things your grandmother would have known.
Don't eat ultra processed.
That...
In the short term, any of these may be helpful.
Even in the long term, some of those enjoinders may be helpful.
But the idea that if I put a plate of food in front of you and I say, look, I altered this food in some way and Gabrielle ate less than she ate in the other condition, and I didn't have to tell her to eat less.
She just chose to eat less.
Therefore, if I have people eat like this forever,
they'll do fine.
Well, there's a number of assumptions in there.
The first one is if I tell Gabrielle to continue to eat like this, if I say, you need to have three times as much broccoli on the plate as meat or something, that first of all, making that change will be any easier than the change of just eating less.
Soon you may say, I'm sick of putting three times the broccoli on my plate or only one third the meat or whatever it is.
The second is that you won't feel deprived
when you're doing that further down the road, that you'll be able to stick with that.
These are all assumptions, and I think there is not evidence for those assumptions.
And I think that's important because what it does, it's back to the idea of inert information.
If we keep saying to people, this will help you, this will help you, and either they don't help at all or they help a very small amount,
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