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The article is mostly about Inuits. Their traditional diet was pretty much 100% meat and was healthy.

So maybe Michael Pollan's advice has to be reduced to "Eat food. Not too much."

The Inuit also traditionally live in the Arctic wearing Caribou and seal skin pelts. They are the hardest m-f'ers I've ever seen, and I can guarantee that a large part of their "health" is due to the tremendous amounts of energy used by the body just to stay alive.

Eat like an Inuit and live in Florida and you'll probably resemble something more like a manatee than a man.

I think the "not too much" is also redundant. If you eat bacon and eggs, your hunger will tell you when to stop. It's the non-food (sugar and grains) that mess up our hunger signals (mainly insulin).

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