Andrew Weil espouses the so-called anti-inflammatory diet, which is mostly plants. Seed oils are high in omega-6 fatty acids, which are highly pro-inflammatory; yet omega-3s, found in fish, are anti-inflammatory. It’s not the plants that are important. Furthermore, the low-fat diet, a bastardized version of the plant-based diet, has been a dismal failure, killing more people than cigarettes.
