Salt, We Misjudged You
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Salt, We Misjudged You
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#2Everything in moderation.
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#3Everything in moderation.
Seriously, almost all of modern food/health science could be reduced down to this simple phrase. Eating too much of "X" is bad for you. No, really? Ya think?
Even cigarettes in moderation won't kill you.
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#4"If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong"
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#5Everything in moderation.
No offense but this is really an intellectually weak statement because moderation is dependent on what is considered "too much", and here we are looking to redefine just what "too much" really is.
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#6Everything in moderation.
That's a tautology. The question is, what counts as a moderate intake of salt?
If Taubes is correct, average US salt intake is moderate. The government says it is excessive.
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#7As someone who has lost around 40 pounds of fat switching to the high fat paleo diet I'm not at all surprised that the current state of the conventional wisdom on food is wrong in any number of ways. It is funny that we really have no idea what we should be eating naturally at all.
Grains were making me sick and I didn't notice for years. It wasn't until I read a book listing side effects of grain consumption that I considered that the grains were the cause of my problems.
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#8As someone who has lost around 40 pounds of fat switching to the high fat paleo diet I'm not at all surprised that the current state of the conventional wisdom on food is wrong in any number of ways. It is funny that we really have no idea what we should be eating naturally at all. Grains were making me sick and I didn't notice for years. It wasn't until I read a book listing side effects of grain consumption that I…
Agreed, nutritional "science" and conventional wisdom has become a joke.
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#9Everything in moderation.
Seriously, almost all of modern food/health science could be reduced down to this simple phrase. Eating too much of "X" is bad for you. No, really? Ya think? Even cigarettes in moderation won't kill you.
I had fun debating the cigarette thing with my doctor.
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#10As someone who has lost around 40 pounds of fat switching to the high fat paleo diet I'm not at all surprised that the current state of the conventional wisdom on food is wrong in any number of ways. It is funny that we really have no idea what we should be eating naturally at all. Grains were making me sick and I didn't notice for years. It wasn't until I read a book listing side effects of grain consumption that I…
I always knew salt and vinegar chips were good for me!