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I'm interested in optimizing my diet for cognition and general health. Most discussions of diet on LessWrong tend to focus on obesity, and are not of interest to me. Are there any good resources that summarize the evidence with the focus on cognition and general health? I can find some specific things like this SSC post and this study. These are not complete, however, and I don't want to do a big search on my own. I find diet to be a minefield, in that I've seen loads of evidence pointing in every direction and it's hard for me to know what is good and what is not.
A lot of information on the topic is controversial. What isn't seems to be:
1) Eat lots of vegetables. 2) Don't eat in a way that produces sudden spikes in the blood glucose level. That means complex carbohydrates are usually better than simple sugars.
Being mindful of your own state and how it's affected by foot yields return. Personally I quit certain foods that I ate regularly after I payed attention to how I feel after I eat them.
It seems like diet is a good case of where it might be better to satisfy than optimize: it's clearer that some things are bad than that other things are optimal.