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In the 90's, I watched my dad cut out as much meat as possible and replace it with things like pastas and other low-fat foods because the scientists and the FDA
by JPKab 10y ago
In the 90's, I watched my dad cut out as much meat as possible and replace it with things like pastas and other low-fat foods because the scientists and the FDA told us that it was healthy. I was stuck eating this high-carb diet myself.
I'd go over to my friend's house, whose parents both viewed the government recommendations with suspicion. They were a typical country family who fed us eggs and bacon for breakfast. I loved staying there and I always felt much better eating like that.
Now I know that all these changes my family made were based on bullshit science, and were detrimental to our health. My dad got heart disease, several of my siblings had weight problems.....
Fuck food science. The entire nutritional science community is rife with terrible science and bad ethics. Studies that don't fit the narrative are buried, and scientists that speak out are discredited. All the while, the public health is bearing the brunt of these fools.
- devoply 10y agoThat's because the science is not influenced by just scientists but pseudo-science backed by industry selling stuff. Our science establishment sucks to a degree and it's mostly because of money. Money for grants comes from benefactors and often has strings attached. Scientists can't just do science they must constantly publish, and publish even if they don't have good findings. etc. etc. Science itself has become an industry beholden to economics. With all the problems that go along with that.
- pasbesoin 10y agoOrganic Chemistry, 1985. The professor specialized in biological organic chemistry. One class on fats and whatnot, he described how, while the public and media were focused on the supposed risks of saturated fats, he and his colleagues were coming to believe that the highest risk fats were the partially hydrogenated -- the manufactured fats. Only took 20 years for this to begin breaking in the mainstream media and public awareness.