Occasionally I like to revisit one of the greatest magazine feature leads ever written:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

Perfect.

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