Another reason diet is a good case study is that people can become very emotionally invested in their diets. Vegetarians and vegans, of course, have moral reasons, but even people with no moral reason for their abnormal diet can become incredibly defensive.
Raw foodists, paleo, low carb, high carb, organic. It’s amazing to see people argue and defend incredibly poorly thought out ideas, sometimes very passionately. I’m mostly paleo myself, but I have to shake my head at a lot of the arguments and defenses I see put forth from the paleo community.
We like to say that religion and politics are mind killers. In my experience diet can be just as much so. I was actually in the process of writing a top level post about this. I’m glad this post is getting so much love though. Now I can be lazy =D
Another reason diet is a good case study is that people can become very emotionally invested in their diets. Vegetarians and vegans, of course, have moral reasons, but even people with no moral reason for their abnormal diet can become incredibly defensive.
Raw foodists, paleo, low carb, high carb, organic. It’s amazing to see people argue and defend incredibly poorly thought out ideas, sometimes very passionately. I’m mostly paleo myself, but I have to shake my head at a lot of the arguments and defenses I see put forth from the paleo community.
We like to say that religion and politics are mind killers. In my experience diet can be just as much so. I was actually in the process of writing a top level post about this. I’m glad this post is getting so much love though. Now I can be lazy =D