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Why Everything We Know About Nutrition Seems To Be Wrong

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 13 2015, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-more-kale-and-spinach dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/08/why-what-we-think-about-eating-is-so-often-unfounded-misconceived-or-flat-out-wrong/

[Also Covered By]: http://firstwefeast.com/eat/are-nutrition-studies-complete-bogus/
[Related]: http://firstwefeast.com/eat/new-dietary-guidelines-say-red-meat-and-butter-are-not-the-devil/

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by wantkitteh on Wednesday May 13 2015, @06:01PM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Wednesday May 13 2015, @06:01PM (#182503) Homepage Journal

    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...

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Alfred on Wednesday May 13 2015, @08:09PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Wednesday May 13 2015, @08:09PM (#182590) Journal
    Well that guilt is easily taken care of, you just have to pay for their retirement.

  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday May 13 2015, @08:15PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Wednesday May 13 2015, @08:15PM (#182592) Journal
    Also, a timely post from elsewhere that is somewhat relevant to this conversation

    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.