Title: The USDA recommendations are almost universally considered wrong, perhaps even exactly backwards.<p>You have people like Michael Pollan saying we should eat traditional foods, mostly plants, and not too much.<p>Gary Taubes says we should eat meat, lots of it. Red meat.<p>The prevailing wisdom from nutritional science is--well, I have no idea what it is. I guess it's to eat foods high in polyunsaturated fats, avoid red meat, and avoid refined starches and sugars, but I'm not sure.<p>I hate that I get anxious when trying to decide something so simple as a shopping list for groceries.<p>Based on my experience in fields where I have a measure of expertise, the difference between a persuasive bunch of garbage and the truth can be incredibly hard to discern until someone contextualizes it all for you.<p>Does anyone have any suggestions for books or articles that cut through these various arguments in an authoritative way, explain shortcomings and virtues, and makes a straightforward recommendation based on a full appreciation of the all the arguments involved?
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