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From the article: "They studied U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional data from both 1950 and 1999 for 43 different vegetables and fruits, finding “reliabl
by g8oz 6y ago
From the article:
"They studied U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional data from both 1950 and 1999 for 43 different vegetables and fruits, finding “reliable declines” in the amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin C over the past half century."
Is that something worth dismissing out of hand?
- refurb 6y agoThe point is (and it's a good one), does it matter? A good example are the statin drugs. Drug companies did a lot of marketing around "well, our drug lowers LDL by 10% more than our competitor", which could be very well be true, but again, does that matter? Unless you run studies that measure an outcome that matters, it's all conjecture. Vitamin C levels might be declining, but we don't have a issue with scurvy in developed nations, the impact of any decline might be insignificant.