Dietary diversity maximizes nutrient acquisition, avoids excesses, and reduces the need for meticulous diet management.

“if you were to design a diet optimal for nutritional adequacy diversity would be one of the things that you'd focus on and that's where the same reason that you know people diversify in economic portfolios there's things that are good for you like the benefits of certain economic assets nutrients there's things that are bad for you toxins and food assets that fail in investment and if you diversify across the foods you have maximal ability to get everything that you need not get too much of one thing and not have to micromanage your diet that much”