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Why the down votes for an alternative opinion? There are a lot of people who saying the same thing. There are a lot of papers on the fact that beans and nuts i
by thomasfromcdnjs 6y ago
Why the down votes for an alternative opinion?
There are a lot of people who saying the same thing. There are a lot of papers on the fact that beans and nuts increase changes of gout.
Edit: I will just add, it seems to be the last half century of nutrition "science" has largely been wrong. I hope more people keep exploring things for themselves instead of getting our top down advice from the experts.
- p1necone 6y ago"alternative opinions" are not science.
- coldtea 6y agoAll opinions on a forum are "alternative opinions". We can't tell if somebody is a scientist here, or whether they're talking shit or not, or whether the consensus (like in many cases) are old wives tales (like "fat is bad for you"). Even peer reviewed papers are "alternative opinions". Unless it has been peer reviewed in several papers, repeated, empirically proven, and got into textbooks, I wouldn't consider anything a "solid scientific truth".
- Anthony-G 6y agoAgreed. I take new, exciting findings with a hefty dollop of salt. I’m prepared to wait for replication of findings and/or a meta-analysis of a large body of work before taking medical or health-based research too seriously.
- easytiger 6y agoIt's not an alternative opinion, that's the prevailing concensus
- p1necone 6y ago> There are a lot of papers on the fact that beans and nuts increase chances of gout. I can't find any, link? Sounds like there are vegetables which are high in purines, which are suspected to be related to gout. But studies consistently show that those vegetables do not have an effect, whereas meat, fish etc do. (Also I suspect the downvotes are because the comment claimed that this was the "prevailing opinion", which it is not)