Imagine this: You've been eating and enjoying a particular food for years. It's something you eat almost every day or maybe every other day. It's a frequent component of your meals. You love it. You suffer no ill effects from it that you're aware of. In fact, throughout the course of incorporating it into your meals as a staple food, you've lost weight, grown stronger, and experienced an overall improvement in your health. Both subjectively (how you feel) and objectively (biomarkers and numbers). But then you read a newsletter or blog or watch a video from a health authority or "guru" that you respect. This person is someone you've followed for years. You've taken their advice for about as long as you've been eating the food, and it's really helped you. Only now they're recommending against the specific food you've been enjoying for years. Their reasoning seems sound -- they cite solid research and give good justification for their recommendation. What do you do? Do you turn on a dime and begin shunning the food, despite it posing no serious issue for you that you can identify? Or do you keep eating and enjoying it? I recommend the latter. You don't have to follow everything someone you trust says and you should never discount your own personal results. Furthermore, you can do that and keep listening to the authority for the other advice they give. Why am I writing about this? After the recent Sunday with Sisson where I mentioned I'd stopped eating Big Ass Salads, people were wondering if they should stop eating salads too. Not at all. If salads work for you, if you truly enjoy them and benefit from them, there's no reason to stop eating them. In fact, you should keep eating them. Mine was not a prescription for everyone, nor does it reflect on the healthfulness (or lack thereof) of salads. Always keep your own personal experiences foremost in mind when analyzing someone else's recommendations. | 
