While people argue about which foods are good for you and which are bad for you, many

of us forget that all food consists of the same six basic ingredients. Sure, different

foods have these ingredients in different proportions, but our bodies need all six of them.

So in a sense, there's really no such thing as a healthy food or an unhealthy food. We're

talking about that right now. Unskeptoid.

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You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. The things we eat.

Today we're going to take a collective look at all the conflicting warnings and exhortations we

hear about what we should and shouldn't eat. It seems everyone has some pet theory that you

shouldn't drink milk or you have to eat organic or you shouldn't eat processed foods or you

must eat only raw. There are always explanations for why this is. We didn't evolve to eat this

or that. It isn't natural to eat something or our digestive systems weren't meant to handle

a certain thing. I know what you're thinking. How is it possible to cover all those possible

claims in a single skeptoid episode? We're going to do it by stepping back from all of the specific

claims and specific foods way back. We're going to look at food as a whole and study what it's made

of, what those bits are, see what we need and what we don't. And then, with this as a foundation,

we'll have the tools to effectively examine any given eating philosophy.

Originally, this episode is going to be about the specific claim that we shouldn't drink milk,

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