I think “nutritional science” causes cancer. I’m not sure but if I had $5,000,000. of research money I could find out.
” nutrition science as a whole must be taken with a gigantic grain of salt.”
salts bad for you
It’s all about marketing.
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.....Traits and behaviors such as body mass index, sleep, exercise, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and the kinds of microbes living in people’s intestines are associated with blood glucose responses to food, the researchers conclude.”...
Also muscle mass—muscle eats blood sugar!!!!
Recent studies say that any amount of wine is “unhealthy”—previous studies declared wine “healthy” in moderation. I’m expecting the current finding on wine—as well as red meat—to be reversed.
The wacko “global warming” crowd demonizes meat, and wants us to be “plant strong”. As an Orthodox Christian, who experiences “plant-based” fasting periods alternating with meat-containing feast seasons, I know that I get “plant weak” and even “plant sick” instead! Eating meat again heals me!!!!
Many nutritional studies also suffer from funding bias in which the result reported conforms to the interest of whomever funded the study. In addition, studies based on randomized controlled clinical trials can be affected by their study population selection criteria, with participants commonly limited to those without other potentially confounding illnesses. Although this makes for cleaner study design and easier analysis, observational studies with a more natural participant population will tend to include people who may benefit from nutritional supplementation due to other ailments.
I don’t trust any of those “studies “. They don’t control for all variables, and the conclusions are usually backwards, confusing cause and effect.
JERF - just eat real food. Something that grew or had a mother with a few minerals.
My nutritional philosophy, FWIW.
” Coca-Cola has recently been accused of funding scientists who focus on physical activity as the primary cause for obesity rather than the copious amounts of sugar found in their undeniably unhealthy soft drinks.”
After accusing other people of assertions based on no or shoddy evidence, the author produces this one.
I thought this was a pretty good article, but then the author let his bias show through with this about coke...”undeniably unhealthy soft drinks”.
If as he claims all the studies are bogus then by default his statment that Coke is unhealthy is indeed deniable. He has no proof to the contrary.
If we paid attention to every idiot that got a grant to conduct a “study” we’d eat nothing but rocks and twigs.
People who don’t know the first thing about chemistry or biology are feeble minded idiots and believe whatever “study” allows them to conclude we shouldn’t eat something or should eat something.
“Eat alphacarotinilingtonas! They keep cancer from your colon! This study proves it!”
WRONG. The dearth of mainstream high quality research, they mean to say. Everyone has their own way of figuring it out, by small sample size: YOU. N=1. There are some excellent blogs out there where dietary fads and trends get discussed and put to the test.
What are the tests? You can do it all yourself. You can full bloodwork, all the panels, you can test your gut bacteria through doctors (though they only test for pathogens), or there are some you can order like ubiome that give you some idea of which bacteria are running your digestion and immune system. You can test your blood sugar every day after meals and fasting (early am). You can test your blood pressure. You can do all kinds of tests yourself. Even your scale is a test.
Read and read, study, and try. Focus on clean foods with very little preparation done for you, very little pesticides. Animals should be living as free and healthy lives as possible and your plant foods should come to you in a relatively straight line from farms with as natural soil as possible.
Read about what the macro nutrients do for you. (Fats and their importance to the brain; starchy carbs, and their importance to the gut bugs who save your as$ from disease, depression, and dyspepsia; protein and how it builds you and keeps you full and strong.)
Read about different superfoods and why they are called that. Read about foods or herbs that have helped others with an ailment you have, and try it. Maybe it will work for you or maybe it will not.
Keep reading and trying things. If everything is working fine and you are enjoying your food, live it.
Keep measuring your own stats. Your weight, your clothing fit, your blood pressure, your bloodwork, your poop, everything gives you info. Doctors know absolutely nothing about the biology of nutrition, and everyone is completely different, so what works for someone else won’t always work for you.
There is so much to learn. I am fascinated by it and how much you can change by your diet. Forget the mainstream screams of “X is bad!” “Y will save your life!” And do your own research online and with your own body.
My mother ruined her health by following every quack fad diet that came out. She ended up in the emergency room several times for low electrolytes because she would not touch salt at all. All the while lecturing her father in law about his terrible diet. He made it to 96 and was still riding a motorcycle at 93.