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The HN comments section on any nutrition article sort-of seems to provide its own microcosm of the problem... No one remotely agrees on the data found so far.
by kup0 7y ago
The HN comments section on any nutrition article sort-of seems to provide its own microcosm of the problem...
No one remotely agrees on the data found so far. A hundred different anecdotes all contradict one another about how to lose weight or eat healthy.
It's a pretty sad and frustrating state that nutrition research is in, honestly. Sugar is bad and then it's okay. Saturated fat is terrible but it's fine. All red meat is bad. No wait, just processed red meat. Too much sodium is dangerous, wait no it's fine for most people, even some with high BP. Counting calories always works, except when it doesn't. Low carb is magic except when it's not.
Yikes.
- brodouevencode 7y agoWell stated. It's political in many ways, and at least for me that makes it a turn off.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoJust like how we know that pushups work, we know that eating moderate amounts of whole foods works. But arguments don't start over that so our attentions shift to the zany opinionated bullshit. Kind of like how it's more fun to argue about min/max exercise equipment and routines than actually do the damn exercise.