Totally confused after reading all your information sites! What are we exactly to be doing to maintain optimum health. Please keep it simple!

Apologies for the confusion, Lou. I'm still researching. I probably should just hold off posting stuff until I reach some conclusions, but I tend to use this site as a notebook, so most everything is a work in progress. But your point is quite important, and I'll see what I can do to consolidate information and perhaps delay posting until I've reached some conclusion.

As far as diet, I'm favoring the Fat Resistance Diet by Leo Galland. I'm also very keen on Gary Taubes book, Good Calories, Bad Calories which pulls together a lot of what I've found during my reading--and then some. The message I get over and over again is that once populations are exposed to processed carbs (flour, sugar, etc.), chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer go on the rise. The evidence is exceedingly clear, and Taubes reviews the research from many different angles. So that finding is my guiding principle.