Get Up And Do Something: Despite diet hype, nutrition basics haven't changed

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Despite diet hype, nutrition basics haven't changed Jan 6th 2013, 11:32 In Woody Allen's classic movie Sleeper, he is woken up 200 years in the future to learn that beef fat, cream pies and hot fudge are the real health foods. It's a funny scene with an unfunny grain of truth behind it. With one hyped diet study contradicting the next, and a new "super-food" on the market weekly, it can certainly feel like if you wait long enough, nutrition experts will change their minds anyway, so why bother with New Year's resolutions at all? I recently opened something of a time capsule myself as I embarked on a revised and updated version of my first book, Small Changes, Big Results. Originally published just eight years ago, it is remarkable how much has changed since then. We now know that sugar is worse and coffee is better for you than we thought. We have learned we need much more vitamin D, and that spices contain powerful antioxidants.

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