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Concentrating on grams of sugar seems highly reductive. Usually foods with added sugar are also high in fat, additives, food coloring, etc. I think it's a combi
by ahallock 10y ago
Concentrating on grams of sugar seems highly reductive. Usually foods with added sugar are also high in fat, additives, food coloring, etc. I think it's a combination of these things.
- taeric 10y agoFat has actually been reduced rather significantly in ready made foods. That said, you are almost certainly right that we have reduced the model below the complexity of reality. However, just as in machine learning, a simpler model often performs better on new data than a complicated one. Learning From Data (link: http://amlbook.com/ http://amlbook.com/), actually has a very good section explaining this.
- DanBC 10y ago> Usually foods with added sugar are also high in fat, Things like low fat yoghurt often use large amounts of sugar to improve mouth feel. The 80s war on fat in food has been pretty terrible for public health, allowing bags of 100% sugar candy to be sold with big "Fat free!" stickers.