"[…] when researchers extract a single food from a diet of proven value, it usually fails to adequately explain why the people living on that diet live longer or have lower rates of heart disease or cancer than people eating a modern Western diet. The whole of a dietary pattern is evidently greater than the sum of its parts. [emphasis added]"
— Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Paperback edition, page 178. Penguin Books.