Patients eat food, not food categories or constituents.

摘要

As I ate my lunch of soy products with a side of polyunsaturated fat, I enjoyed Dr. Kelly's article entitled "Diet and Exercise in the Management of Hyperlip-idemia." The article provided an excellent overview of dietary approaches to manage high cholesterol levels. Yet, as I chewed on my food, and on the information in the article, I considered that most people do not eat (or think about) food in ill-defined heterogeneous categories, or split into nutritional constituents.