The complications of nutrition science
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#2I just wish people would stop acting like food was "designed" for us.
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#3Via negativa: Avoid what is most likely bad (food processed by industry, sodas, excess sugar, excess salt, trans fat and food blogs). Beyond that there isn't too much you can do.
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#4Interesting choice of slugname:
nutrition-science-complicated
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#5> Why (almost) everything you know about food is wrong
They tell me every other year.
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#6PG referenced/tweeted a quote by someone "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants". That sums things up pretty well.
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#7PG referenced/tweeted a quote by someone "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants". That sums things up pretty well.
That would be Michael Pollan[0]
[0] http://www.amazon.com/In-Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/01...
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#8This was fully covered in "In Defense of Food" - good intro read for nutrition. Read that, not Vox, which is rife with strange opinions, like "overeating" being the cause of modern disease? You damn nutritional science then come up with your own solution to everyone's problem, not based in evidence? Neat.
It's oversimplifying to say the only studies nutritional science can use are observational ones. There are plenty of high quality, controlled studies on specific aspects of nutrition. We learn from those. That's also not to say that observational studies are all bad. They can be useful for determining when things don't work and aligning controlled evidence. The fact that nutrition is a hard problem doesn't mean it's not a real science.
TL;DR Learn who you can trust on nutrition (Vox is not a good start)
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#9There is a really low bar for human nutrition in the short term. Depending on body fat, a person can go many weeks without eating anything, so a juice "cleanse" will seem to work, low-carb will seem to work, high-carb low-fat will seem to work too, vegan, paleo, etc. Nutritional deficiencies might not develop for years!
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#10Interesting choice of slugname: nutrition-science-complicated
We used that (more or less) for the title above, since the article title is linkbaity.