The point is: nutrition, as a science, is a mess. I believe it will get better as time goes by, but it will be a while before we have very good *mechanistic* accounts of various foods on our health. Plus, we may find that certain genotypes require different nutritional profiles; that is, some people do better on different diets.

What is indisputable, though, is I LOVE OATMEAL.

Following this advice will result in suboptimal health and shorten your life. Better to eat a variety of colors of vegetables and plenty of fruits and eliminate all meat and dairy from your diet. Yes, meat and dairy are not as bad for you as sugary cereals, but that does not make them healthy. Most of what passes for research in nutrition would not earn a passing grade in a rigorous college-level science course. There are *no* studies comparing dairy to a dairy-free diet or meat to a meet-free diet, and there probably won’t be as long as the USDA or the meat packing companies dominates the funding of nutritional ‘research’.

Look I can make the facts say what I want as well!

Following this advice will result in suboptimal health and shorten your life. Better to eat lots of free-range chicken, eggs, fish, grass-fed meat, & green leafy veggies, and eliminate all gluten grains from your diet. Yes, oatmeal is not as bad for you as sugary cereals, but that does not make it healthy. Most of what passes for research in nutrition would not earn a passing grade in a rigorous college-level science course. There are *no* studies comparing oatmeal to a grain-free diet, and there probably won’t be as long as the USDA or the Quaker company dominates the funding of nutritional ‘research’.

“Wear Sunscreen”

Yet another way to shorten your life and *increase* your risk of cancer (including skin cancer). For optimum health, you should get your optimum dose of vitamin D via exposure of 60% of your body to noonday sun for 10-15 minutes per day (less to start out, more if you live far from the equator). Failing that, take vitamin D supplements.

Well thats my point of view, it have worked for me; obviously I have had hard times like everybody else, but when you are making your dreams true instead of dreaming, those hard times are also part of the dream; Find what makes you happy and the way to join that on your working life as it is already present on your personal life, because the true is that at the end, working YOU a personal YOU were just YOU, what makes YOU HAPPY works for both sides.

Well, like I said it’s my oppinion, works for me, and I understand that everyone is different and what works for me not necessarily works for others…and viceversa, but hope works for someone else.

I love this post because since deciding to stop being stupid and get out of debt two years ago, this ideal you write about here has been what I’ve worked so hard to become. It’s a way of life, and you say it so well.

I’m not there yet, but I’m only 22 – and with a high-paying job and no-debt on the horizon (I was such an idiot at 18), I think I could get there! Even if it takes me until I’m 40 to get it right.

Thanks