Nigeria, Feb. 22 -- Survival is fundamentally based on flexibility and adaptability in the face of limited resources. However, in social media pop health culture, metabolic facts are often replaced with buzzwords and catchphrases - sometimes due to ignorance, sometimes for profit, and sometimes due to a lack of real-world experience outside the Western world bubble. The goal is to create rigid dietary tribes - vegan, keto, carnivore - each convinced that their way is the only way. Yet, human survival has always relied on metabolic flexibility, shaped by geography, seasons, climate, and an omnivorous diet that allowed adaptation to changing environments.

Every year, millions of dollars are spent on low-carb conferences portraying sugar as...