Nutrition topics that are in dispute and your findings

Eggs come to mind.

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That and dietary cholesterol in general. If eggs are bad for you then I'm doomed. I eat more eggs when I'm trying to be healthy.

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Yeah, definitely. I used to eat them daily, but cut back to about 3-4x's a week. No real reason, just mixing breakfast up a little.

Eggs postworkout or carbs post workout? I've read you should always keep carbs and protein high peri workout and fats low to make for quicker digestion. Also heard eggs are the best post workout because of the dietary cholesterol

Phytic acid is an interesting one. It applies to peanuts and other legumes, nuts, seeds, grains, and tubers.

Phytic acid blocks the absorption of key minerals. It can be reduced in preparation methods (soaking and cooking, sprouting, fermentation), but those methods are generally time-consuming.

On the other hand, it's an antioxidant and can absorb heavy metal ions in the body.

Personally, I would do a lot more fermenting in general if I had more time for it. On peanuts specifically, sometimes I really like them out of the shells and I really like peanut butter on sandwiches and in smoothies. The macros are good, but there are these issues with phytic acid, and possibly lectins and toxins. Studies seem to indicate toxins are less prevalent in peanut butter. I think peanuts are good in moderation, but ideally you'd want to reduce that phytic acid.

the reason you see this is because way too many people focus on very small details that have very very little impact on overall nutrition.

everone is worried about optimizing nutrition when 99% of americans cant even hit their macros much less need to be worried about meal timing and micros

There are advocates for and against every diet and food item there is.Only agreement that seems universal is that simple carbohydrates and high fructose corn syrup is bad but stores sell a shite ton of them.
The only diet that doesn’t seem to get a lot of hate is the Mediterranean diet.

The basic problem is that nature programmed humans to have cravings for fat,sugar and salt because for much of mankind it was the hunter gatherer lifestyle and they were not readily available for much of the year.
North American Indigenous people,for example,didn’t have access to simple carbs,they had wild fruit at certain times of the year but it wasn’t near as sweet as modern fruit.Honeybees were European transplants so they didn’t even have honey.They ate some wild plants but they got significant amounts of vitamins from eating the internal organs of animals they killed.They instinctively knew the organs were the most nutritious part of the animal and they were prized.
Wild animals don’t have marbeled fat but they collected what they could and also cracked open bones and ate the marrow which has high fat content.
In short ,they had times of plenty and times of famine to prepare for.
We don’t have famines but we still have the innate cravings for fat,sugar and salt,to our detriment.
I’ll readily admit I have my struggles with sweets,in particular.

There has been a lot of misinformation about cholesterol and fats.
The cholesterol in eggs has a lot of benefits, despite the misconceptions people have. It's similar to dietary fat (excluding unnatural trans fat). You'll see products in stores that are marketed as "low fat" and "healthy". But you read the label and there's hardly any nutritional value, and it has a bunch of added sugar, which can be addicting. It's really unfortunate that sugar is so ubiquitous and it's considered normal to ingest it in massive amounts, even for kids. You look at the diabetes numbers and people having to get limbs removed, I think it would be beneficial to think more in terms of addiction.

This article goes through some of the disputes over the effects of fats vs. sugars.

I look at research, but you have to have a skeptical eye for the research at times. I also pay close attention to the effects foods and drinks have on me.
Good diets will have some variations from person to person based on variations in genetics, biochemistry, microbiome, goals, etc.

I am personally up in the air on the relative importance of "micronutrients." (Or at least focusing on them as some sort of goal.)

Obviously we need vitamins and
minerals, but I'm fairly convinced that one could not only survive but thrive off of well-sourced red meat, fish, poultry, and eggs (dairy is a separate hot button so I'll leave that out for now). Throw fiber in the same category. I think a whole animal protein focus obviates fiber and gives you readily available micronutrients.

I'm not "carnivore," mainly bc I love berries and other plant shite. But I just sort of roll my eyes when people get fired up about veggies, esp vegan dipshits.

Eat them if you like them, but the real essentials of life are in animal proteins.

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Eat them if you like them, but the real essentials of life are in animal proteins.

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Another term I hate is "super food" but based on my limited google research organ meats might have some of the most nutritional benefits.

Not that I eat it often but I'm not exactly a picture of good health