Reply To: Chazal Fitness Programs

Is it irrational to assume that any nutritional guidance offered by chazal or referenced in gemorah were based on what our gadolim at THAT time believed was the best information available and that the guidance today would likewise be based on the best information available. We don’t necessarily want to clone a diet from the alte heim where yidden had very limited access to fresh seafood, fruit and vegetables and plant-based proteins were not yet commercially available. However, as others have noted, there are frum rabbonim with PhDs in nutrition and medicine who can offer torah-based guidance on healthy food and lifestyles rather than some shyster advertising in frum media claiming a miracle diet based on what he claims are brought down from chazal.