I was looking into the okinawa diet, the warrior diet, v-diet ect. I am a college student and i can cook my own meals but i have a budget of about 30 dollars a week for food. Can anyone reccommend the best diet plan for this, and also give some examples of what to buy at the grocery store? also just fyi, im 6′5″ 230 pounds with about 12 percent body fat and work out 6 days a week on average an hour a day.

I can understand that it’s an advantage to be able to live off one foodstuff exclusively, if it’s the only one that is abundantly present in your environment (like, as I understand, the panda bear’s diet consists of bamboo only).

I can also understand why it’s convenient for a carnivore to also be able to live off vegetation if the number of prey is temporarily limited.

But what is the advantage of requiring a lot of different foodstuffs to thrive, like humans do? If only one vitamin or mineral is missing, it’s detrimental to our health. Why have we evolved in a way that has made our health dependent on the weakest link in our food supply?