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… I thought it would be fitting to make this very first one about dietary dogma and how to root it from your mind…from carnivore to vegan, and everything in-between. Everyone seems to have their own “One True God!” when it comes to diets. And the funny thing about dogma? The only diet that’s not dogmatic is whichever one any particular individual advocates. It’s not dogmatic at all, see? It’s very flexible. It’s all those other diets that are dogmatic (and ridiculous, unhealthful, poison, inadequate, fattening, starving, and et cetera). So let’s jump in and have some fun.