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We have thousands of years of experience in feeding children. Changing a dietary recommendation should require iron-clad evidence.
by gozur88 10y ago
We have thousands of years of experience in feeding children. Changing a dietary recommendation should require iron-clad evidence.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoFor most of history, children have been fed badly. Its a hyperbolic exaggeration of the first order to claim millennia of experience.
- opportune 10y agoI feed my children only sunshine and they usually stop complaining after 2-4 weeks.
- paulddraper 10y ago> Changing a dietary recommendation What if the original dietary recommendation lacked iron-clad evidence?
- zaphar 10y agoThen goal one is to get some iron-clad evidence so your next recommendation doesn't make it worse. Just because a mistake was made the first time isn't an excuse to make the same mistake a second time.
- paulddraper 10y agoOnce you have iron-clad evidence of a diet better than all other diets, you've reached the end. Congratulations.
- gozur88 10y agoYou don't need to be better than all other diets. You just need to be better than the previous recommendation.
- zaphar 10y agoThis is a red herring argument. You don't need iron-clad evidence of a diet better than all diets. You only need iron-clad evidence for smaller specific recommendations. This doesn't have to be an all or nothing diet. In fact with nutrition it probably can't which means advice should be both well-researched and more nuanced than it currently is. Neither of which changes the point that making recommendation with little to no quality research is more likely to make it worse than make it better and you'd be better off just staying where you are until you understand the problem better.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoHumans have survived and thrived on a wide variety of diets both now and throughout history.