Peter Attia’s book Outlive, which I read last month, was interesting but I find it very difficult to trust people who seem to drive home one particular point at the exclusion of others.
Till a few years back, Dr Attia was bending backwards trying to convince everyone that intermittent fasting is the answer to all evils. Now, he has taken a complete u-turn. Who is to say he will not make complete u-turns on other things in the future?
Unfortunately, nutrition is a subject that is in the grey zone of science. A lot of experiments are done that produce results contradictory to one another. Read reputed journals like Nature, Harvard Medical etc regularly and you will realise this.
One thing I have understood after keenly studying a lot of material on health and wellness for many years.
- Eat a healthy diet and avoid junk food
- Eat less than you wish to but don’t starve yourself
- Exercise regularly – including cardio and some form of strength training
- Have a social life with friends and family (mental wellness)
- Avoid all fad diets!!
Everybody knows these things. The trick in all this is not the knowledge but the execution of it. People falter in the execution.
Note: I am not a doctor or a nutritionist. I am just a overweight person trying perpetually to get fitter and lose weight, so take my words with a lot of salt (even though it is not good for your health 
).
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