Thankfully, an enormous body of solid science supports that there are a variety of eating styles from vegan to Mediterranean to omnivorous that can lead to optimal health. That is, if the following two ESSENTIAL features are regularly adhered to:

1. Eating unprocessed or minimally processed real foods that are as close as possible to their natural state.
2. Eating predominately plant-based foods.

When it comes to health promotion and disease prevention, if any “expert” touts one and only one type of diet as “the best,” they are ideologues that are not espousing what the scientific facts convey—so beware!