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Why Everything We Know About Nutrition Seems To Be Wrong

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 13 2015, @03:27PM   
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/

• Re:Most of the US "diet industry" is corrupt (Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Wednesday May 13 2015, @10:38PM

  by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday May 13 2015, @10:38PM (#182673) Homepage

  Consuming rancid fish oil can cause catastrophic vitamin E deficiency as it "uses up" all of what's in the body. I don't know about the effects in humans, but in dogs, the result is blindness due to retinal atrophy.

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  And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.

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