For different health conditions, taste preferences, body types, and personalities, there can be absolutely different "best" diets.
For instance, an apple-shaped women in her postmenopausal years can benefit from carbohydrate limitation while a young bodybuilder working out twice a day must have a lot of carbs while carefully planning his (or her) carbohydrate intake around exercises.
A marathon runner can eat pure sugar and chocolate and be skinny but a sedentary diabetic person will seriously ill after such a treat.
Generally speaking, nobody benefits from:
* refined carbohydrates like sugar or corn syrup
* foods fried in animal fats like lard
* cheap margarines based on hydrogenated oils
* fatty meats
Everybody benefits from:
* fresh leafy vegetables
* berries
* tree nuts and their oils
* olive oil
* fish: wild is better than farmed
Most diets in their maintenance phases should include:
* whole grains, especially oats, Perl barley, buckwheat, and millet
* fresh produce including less sweet fruits
* fermented diary like yogurt or kefir
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