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Originally Posted by plucero
The other key thing that keeps me happy is that you can drink alcohol because it's fat free 🙂
Negatives are difficulty eating and restaurants and a lack of salad dressing options.
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Hopefully you're not drinking too much alcohol. I think everyone (even Dr. McDougall) agrees that heavy alcohol consumption is bad for you, for example it increases your risk of several types of cancer:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25422909
"Alcohol increases risk of cancer of oral cavity and pharynx, oesophagus, colorectum, liver, larynx and female breast."
Small amounts of alcohol probably won't hurt you, but also doesn't seem to have any benefit:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26997174
"Meta-analyses adjusting for these factors find that low-volume alcohol consumption has no net mortality benefit compared with lifetime abstention or occasional drinking."
There are lots of healthy nut-based dressing recipes, but I don't think Dr. McDougall would approve of them. Another option is to replace the dressing with spices. I think everyone agrees that spices are healthy.
I think McDougall is anti-fat for no good reason. Nuts and avocado have been shown to have various health benefits, and I'm not aware of any studies which show that nuts or avocado are bad for you. If you know of any such studies, please post a link, as I'd be interested in reading them.