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I remember reading that it's because they're impossible to do: the only option would be to lock people up in a room and only feed them exactly the same food on
by coaxial 8y ago
I remember reading that it's because they're impossible to do: the only option would be to lock people up in a room and only feed them exactly the same food on a schedule for months.
- enturn 8y agoThere were some interesting observations about salt with people who did a 135-day simulation of life on the Mir space station. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effects.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effect...
- stevenwoo 8y agoThere is also the confounding factor of gut microbiome (people who had more fiber continuously IIRC having a more diverse/probably better for health, microbiome) influencing results of diet or vice versa.
- cimmanom 8y agoHaven't they done nutrition studies in the military and in prisons because of the level of control over food intake?
- coaxial 8y agoMaybe, but how biased is the population? People in the army do a lot more physical exercise than most, people in jail have a different way of living than the rest of the population because of their circumstances.
- cimmanom 8y agoIsn't that what control groups are for? Then you could rule out exercise or jail conditions as a factor.