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Academia has a pretty bad track record when it comes to nutrition advice. "Food science" is mostly the study of how to maximize food manufacturer profits, not h
by ralph84 7y ago
Academia has a pretty bad track record when it comes to nutrition advice. "Food science" is mostly the study of how to maximize food manufacturer profits, not how to construct a healthy diet.
- King-Aaron 7y ago[citation needed]
- CamperBob2 7y agoCitation? Snort. Let me know when they figure out whether or not eggs are going to kill me.
- r-w 7y agoIf you need someone to tell you whether eggs are going to kill you, then you are beyond help. What you are complaining about is not academia, but the reporting on academia. Most institutions hardly even blink when a study about the health benefits/detriments of eggs, coffee, or the like is published. You’d change my mind, perhaps, if you told me that you actually followed multiple scientific journals.
- CamperBob2 7y agoSounds like you're saying the nutritional researchers do have their story straight on this and countless other issues, but just aren't communicating it well. But if the researchers don't communicate effectively with the rest of us, or with our physicians, then why do they even bother going to work in the morning? It's not my job to read scientific journals, and the doctors are as confused by the barrage of junk science as anyone else.
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- ibeckermayer 7y agohttps://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074... Smug, uninformed tool for corrupt authority