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I find it interesting why that doctor's reasoning is flawed: in reality, people don't just follow advice wholesale, they follow some of it based on how much wil

• croon 9y ago
  > I find it interesting why that doctor's reasoning is flawed I can't imagine a scenario where that cereal/grain recommendation in GP quote isn't sponsored or populistic at the time though. And while their method/reasoning wasn't flawed if they indeed had no research opposing their recommendation, that's kind of a straw man from the main issue of avoiding fat being legitimately bad. You need energy, and you get some from protein which you desperately need, but you can't get all your energy from protein, and that leaves you fats or carbs. Of those it's so much worse to avoid fat than carbs.
• acdha 9y ago
  Yeah, there's a really interesting psychological angle to this — telling people to reduce, say, sugar or the most processed fats is very different from effectively asking them to give up most of what they enjoy in food. A less ambitious play probably would have come a lot closer to accomplishing their goal. There's also an angle about how this pushed a lot of people to heavily processed foods because leaving out everything on that bad list left a much narrower list of things you could make at home which were also tasty.