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rendition switcher   Question: What resources do you suggest for
designing an appropriate diet?  Marc Bessler: You know,
interestingly I’m a surgeon and advising diets that I just told
you don’t really work, isn’t my specialty, so I don’t, you know,
nutritionists are a reasonable source, but I gotta tell ya the
food pyramid that was being, I would say pushed by the USDA for
a long time, which had oils at the top and really carbs at the
bottom, is really wrong, I hate to say it and they revised the
food pyramid recently to look very different, it’s still pyramid
shaped but it’s not based stacked one on top of the other. The
Mediterranean diet for example which isn’t a diet at all but
people who live in the Mediterranean region, they tend to eat a
lot of fats but they’re good fats, oils. They tend to eat carbs
but relatively