What should I eat?

Part 1: pre-industrial diets and how we evolved to eat almost anything

Food before cooking (raw food diet 1)

How cooking affects flavor and digestion (raw food diet 2)

Protein, fat, and carbs (Paleo diet 1)

Micronutrients versus antinutrients (Paleo diet 2)

The first farmers (Mediterranean diet)

Far-flung farmers and old-fashioned diets (blue zones diet)

Part 2: industrial foods and why some diets are better than others

Factor food (meal replacement diet)

The conundrum of obesity: if excess body fat is bad, why do we store so much?

The tangled roots of weight gain: why are so many people overweight or obese?

Low-calorie diets, aging, and cancer (intermittent fasting diet)

Low-fat, high-carb diets, weight loss, and metabolic syndrome (DASH diet)

Low-carb, high-fat diets, weight loss, and heart disease (Atkins diet)

Only animals or plants? (carnivore, vegetarian, and vegan diets)

Why some diets are better than others.