Elimination diets work for some people. It’s estimated 2%-20% of people have some sort of food intolerances. There’s nothing quacky about it.
I’ve found it useful in my life as well although I don’t need to go to something as extreme. Generally you eliminate almost everything and slowly introduce foods to see what you can and cannot eat.
I had major issues eating wheat. A lot of my health issues began in Italy because the started a diet of food made from wheat. I had to spend 2 weeks in the hospital with kidney issues and actually had really bad dermatitis on my face.
As soon as I cut out the wheat, my kidney went back fully and my paralysis went away. I also no long have dermatitis flair ups all the time. The last time I had it was when I ate a whole pizza by myself.
I don’t think Peterson and his daughter are slowly reintroducing foods, though. They are permanently only eating beef, salt, and water - which sounds very bad to me. I assume they must be taking vitamin supplements.
If they’ve found what worked to alleviate symptoms, stick with it. Some people have real issues with vegetables that are toxic to them and cause autoimmune flair ups.
This doctor gives a good explanation of why people would do this and benefit although there are also concerns. But it’s not like it’s worst than what most eating are eating if you think about it with processed food every day. Is eating beef everyday that insane when you consider all the BS people eat daily these days?
It’s a scary thought DNA damage can be passed down.
But we are just beginning to understand autoimmune issues that seems to have correlation with mental health issues. We also know there seem to be some correlation with inflammation with depression, and even gut bacterial having correlations with depression.
For someone who has those autoimmune issues, an elimination diet can really help them.
This is not the first time I’ve noticed it. If you use they as your default 3rd person singular pronoun, you may end up using it even when you are trying to refer unambiguously to a person whose gender is known to you. Come on, people!
A publisher is not a Kinkos. Penguin Random House rejects far more books than it accepts, and it does not treat all points of view equally. It does not publish works of Holocaust denial or phrenology. It has standards, and it’s reasonable for employees to argue that Peterson does not meet those standards. After all, he has suggested that gay marriage might be a plot by cultural Marxists, that women wearing makeup in the workplace is “sexually provocative”, that trans women aren’t women because they’re not “capable of having babies”, that women cannot handle truth, and that transgender activists are comparable to mass-murdering Maoists. He peddles debunked scientific theories and dangerously dodgy diets. I have gone through his work myself and shown that he is a crackpot, whose writing is devoid of basic reasoning and full of wild unsubstantiated claims. When Pankaj Mishra wrote a critical review of Peterson’s work in the New York Review of Books, Peterson called Mishra a “prick” and said he’d “slap [Mishra] happily”. The things he says are often false, prejudiced and dangerous. What possible obligation does a publisher have to publish the ravings of bigots?
The desperation to discredit JP by the left has only made him a bigger star. People already see through the incredibly ridiculous strawman arguments they have presented as his.
At a company town hall meeting, some employees were reportedly in tears as they described how Peterson had radicalized people in their lives.
This is beyond silly. The more outraged people get and even actually crying…the more people will buy his book and read it. I can’t see how normal human beings can read about people crying at a meeting over a book and think this is normal behavior.
Yeah, well, that’s the thing. Shouldn’t a good capitalist say okay I’ma take my business elsewhere and keep doing that until they all reject him and then say okay I’ma found my own publishing house and sell handmade copies on the street for $0.25 or whatever until he has enough money to buy a fancy printing press?
Or is Random House taxpayer funded (moreso than any other big business that can take advantage of convenient tax rules)?
He has more than enough money to self-publish, and the interwebs could distribute his book faster than any traditional store or lemonade stand ever could.