DO NOT FOLLOW, I MAY NOT LEAD........

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
The Buddha

Such ancient good advice - apply it to everything; whether the media tells you to take Statins or an Aspirin a day or even "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" - or "stay out of the sun and cover your body with sun screen" or "Milk is good for you - look, it is fortified with Vitamins"......and so many more 'truths' - endless truths for someone else who wants you to follow theirs for a miriad of reasons! And not all reasons are in your interest.
Specially when it comes to what you eat and drink. Who could actually know better than you yourself? - it is your body; they are your senses.
Ask yourself with everything your eyes or your nose want to eat - will this be beneficial to my body and my mind/spirit. I trust there would be a few things we would just put back. No, thank you.

The whole issue of what is the right eating life style for me is based on experimentation. Ongoing and lots of it! Not so different from other experimentations in life.......Now I eat this piece of bread, chocolate, piece of carrot or chicken.
Then I listen to my body - how does it sit - feel and affect the state of my energy.
Somethings you have to repeat many times to get a clear idea; specially wheat, dairy
and sugar - raw versus cooked, macrobiotic, vegan, lacto-ovarian, ayurvedic, Atkins, Zone and anything else old and new - you must give it all a good try and observe.
Of course that's how the Buddha comes into the kitchen! Discriminating wisdom when it comes to our bodies and food.
Sometimes you try something just once and you know - "this feels right" or "this does not feel good" Please trust those feelings and heed them - somebody in that (your) body k n o w s it; it just takes a little while to figure it out. Trust that you can! - Log your experiences and then maintain some coherence with them. You'll be healthy wise and maybe even happy with a well fed body.