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What Science Says You Should Eat: Although debate rages, academic nutrition researchers have begun to form a consensus around a plan with an important advantage— it is based on a preponderance of sound science.  A re-post/ adaptation from Discover Magazine with some good sense about what makes for a healthy diet and healthier lifestyle.     What Science Says You Should Eat What does science say you should eat? Most diets aren't advisable or even realistic, including the U.S. Agriculture Department's famous food guide . Instead, a Harvard scientist recommends a new way of eating based on the world's largest and longest food study.  Here is a link to the Canada Food Guide . More than 44 million people are clinically obese compared with 30 million a decade ago, putting them at increased risk for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and breast, prostate, and colon cancers. In the meantime, the noun diet seems to attract a different adjective every week