Here’s how public thinking on food gets shaped: Every year, researchers publish hundreds of academic studies about the health effects of various foods - chocolate, kale, red wine, anything. Those studies, in turn, become fodder for newspaper articles, books and blog posts.
But how much of this torrent of information is worth the trouble? Surprising little, according to a number of key researchers.In recent years, these skeptics have caused a stir by poking big holes in the nutritional science behind popular diet advice. Even the findings published in distinguished health journals have come under fire.
Collectively, their work suggests that we know far less than we think we do about what to eat.
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(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Wednesday May 13 2015, @04:06PM
I JUST ATE A VEGAN!
Will I starve to death, now?
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 13 2015, @04:10PM
Cows are good eats, you'll be OK. Look out for those cows who were fed the brains of downer cows. The UK had some fun with that a decade or two ago, didn't turn out well. Then again those were technically cannibal cows not vegan cows.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday May 13 2015, @05:12PM
Any cow claiming to be vegan should feel a lot of remorse for their past sins.
(Score: 4, Funny) by wantkitteh on Wednesday May 13 2015, @06:01PM
I'm fairly surely the vegan diet does at least give some kind of dispensation for drinking the milk of your biological parent. After all, it's the responsibility of that parent to make you feel hideously guilty simply for being born some way down the road...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Alfred on Wednesday May 13 2015, @08:09PM
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday May 13 2015, @08:15PM
http://www.pleated-jeans.com/2015/05/13/21-guilty-animals-that-are-very-sorry-for-what-they-just-did/ [pleated-jeans.com]
No cows though.