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There's a lot of back on forth on this, and I think that while Ancel Keys was wrong, he now gets unfairly maligned a lot. Nutritional science is just hard. Here
by lhl 8y ago
There's a lot of back on forth on this, and I think that while Ancel Keys was wrong, he now gets unfairly maligned a lot. Nutritional science is just hard. Here's an interesting writeup on how dietary fat became the bogeyman: https://deniseminger.com/2011/12/22/the-truth-about-ancel-keys-weve-all-got-it-wrong/ https://deniseminger.com/2011/12/22/the-truth-about-ancel-ke...
(One interesting thing about the past associational studies is that many did not control for transfats, or even smoking).
I also like this Vox article from a few years ago that describes why nutritional research is so hard: https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-complicated https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-com...
- kbutler 8y agoIt's absolutely hard. I just expect that a blanket "carbs are evil" is likely to be as incorrect as the blanket "fats are evil" advice. (e.g., the Twinkie diet http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/... ) Amount of food we eat, roughly eetimatable as calories, is important. I think gut biota is also an interesting field we are just learning about. But yes, eat in moderation and exercise.