Every couple of years diets are rebranded under a new fancy name. Marketers make the same diet looks shiny and new again, and they can make a killing from naive people desperate to lose weight/be healthier by any means necessary. The ketogenic diet is just a fancy way of saying “I don’t eat a lot of carbs.” Intermittent fasting is just a fancy of saying “I don’t eat breakfast” or “I don’t eat three meals a day.” Eating a meat-free and/or dairy and egg-free diet seems like a “new,” “hip,” and “woke” thing to do yet Buddhists of certain denominations, a third of India’s population, and Rastas have been eating meat-free diets for nearly their whole lives. Being a full-blown carnivore is also becoming a trendy, “new” thing to do, yet you have people living in places with little to no arable land like the Massai people who have been eating like this for centuries.

There are many ways to reach the same goal. Meat-eating Massai people are slim and fit, and so are vegetarian Shaolin warrior monks. Both groups people can easily kick ass. People just need to find what eating style works for them, which sometimes may not be the rebranded diets that are heavily marketed on the internet.