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Evidence is hard to get due to variables in such studies. You have to observe people's daily routine for a long period of time, which gets to be expensive. You
by bad_user 9y ago
Evidence is hard to get due to variables in such studies. You have to observe people's daily routine for a long period of time, which gets to be expensive. You also cannot fool the subject, or the people monitoring progress, so there's no way to do such studies double-blind.
For these reasons studies on nutrition are also hard and mostly flawed. But do we need a study to tell us that sugar is poison?
Well, ok, we do, but we can also notice our grandparents weren't eating that much sugar, they weren't suffering that much from obesity or diabetes and that's enough for me.
- joombaga 9y agoI'll grant you the note of our grandparent's diets, but I don't think it's analogous. Were our grandparents also more mindful? Perhaps I'm missing your point.
- erikbye 9y agoI seem to be missing it too. You don't need mindfulness to be on a particular diet, or to avoid sugar, or obesity.
- contravariant 9y agoI'm sorry but why on earth would you accept a vague almost anecdotal correlation, while rejecting scientifically conducted nutrition studies? I'll grant you that nutritional science is hard, but surely holding studies to a lower standard isn't a logical solution?