Does diverse diet help? Yes, in fact, according to University of Arkansas researchers, humans grew to eat the broadest possible extent of foodstuffs and restricting that diversity can lead to critical health problems.
"Americans assume that their diets are varied because of the seemingly infinite array of foods available to us," Nutra quoted Peter Ungar, author, and anthropologist at the University of Arkansas, as saying. He added, "Diets that purport to solve that problem by cutting out entire categories of food is taking the wrong approach."
Health experts all over the country agree. In his book titled "Human Diet: its Origin and Evolution," Peter Ungar and Mark Teaford collected prominent experts in human evolution, nutrition, and health to come up with a comprehensive assessment of human diet. The book scrutinizes human food from a diet of earliest ancestors to latest fad diets today.
Every chapter of the book quotes evidence from the newest study in those fields. Overall, the book tries to shout out the message that human evolved to consume the most diverse diet of whatever species, as well as that restricted nature of the modern food, can cause chronic health issues.
A varied diet will usually include a broad range of foods from the whole array of the common food groups like fruits, dairy products, fish, meat, and cereals. It also includes an excellent combination of foods at each of those groups.
In the past, several studies have supported the right impact of diverse diet in overall health. For example, a study posted in NCBI has shown that food variety is being linked to less macrovascular illness in people with type-2 diabetes. Another study has shown that taking up a diverse diet protects the human heart.
Eating more, which is very contradictory to the modern diet, may save the life. Different scientific pieces of evidence have spoken. So does different diet help? Yes, even creative strategist Tom J. Hive agrees when he said in his post in the Huffington Post that he would not eat the same food every day just because it's all nutrition, but rather he would go for diverse flavors and variety food.
