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> as recently as December 2016 he was the senior author on a similar study that tried to discredit international health guidelines advising people to eat less s
by PunchTornado 7y ago
> as recently as December 2016 he was the senior author on a similar study that tried to discredit international health guidelines advising people to eat less sugar. That study, which also appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was paid for by the International Life Sciences Institute, or ILSI, an industry trade group largely supported by agribusiness, food and pharmaceutical companies and whose members have included McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Cargill, one of the largest beef processors in North America.
I think this is enough for me to disregard that individual and anything he says about nutrition. If you want to eat processed meat go ahead and eat it. You can convince yourself it's healthy too. You can convince yourself sugar is healthy.
- dekhn 7y agoSo, even if he published a replicable study that was convincing, you'd toss it merely because of his affiliations? That seems like... a poor way to do science. Personally (I'm a PhD scientist in biology) I think a lot of the claims about sugar aren't actually supported by the evidence and are in fact just driven by super-egotist scientists who want peoeple to believe what they believe (lookin' at you, Lustig).
- ssijak 7y agoSugar is missused word in the diet world. Some groups of people (mostly keto and carnivore group, but others too) use sugar for every type of carbohydrate, lumping simple sugars, fibers and starches together. Lusting from what I remember does make distinction from the different types of carbs. And yes, not all carbs are the same. Some ARE bad, like simple sugars and processed fructose (unless eaten rarely and very moderately) but some are not, like starches from whole foods and fiber!
- belltaco 7y agoHe didn't publish a replicable study, he just said the risk is acceptable.
- dekhn 7y agometastudies are trivial to replicate because there is no additional data collection, etc. most metastudies are implemented as simple scripts that can be run by somebody else.
- briandear 7y agoIf the study were funded by vegan groups or environmental groups would it be more credible? Or course not.
- PunchTornado 7y agolet's say that I don't trust the sugar industry.