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What if we took a step back and realized that our bodies are all different and all of these studies likely never have 100% proper control over external variable
by mike503 6y ago
What if we took a step back and realized that our bodies are all different and all of these studies likely never have 100% proper control over external variables. Perhaps eating 7 eggs a week is good for you if you also eat A, do B, etc, but otherwise it’s bad... too many variables and still (what feels like) a near infinite amount of knowledge lacking of our own bodies.
- niels_bom 6y agoThis. The wildy differing research results indicates to me that the science of diet and health is just really hard. You can’t easily create control groups for longer running studies. You can’t easily control for (epi)genetic factors. There’s a tonne of other variables you also need to rule out. And for individuals it’s still unclear whether the results apply to them or not. Personally I’ve decided to go middle of the road, listen to my body and factor in more obvious things into my decisions about food, like animal cruelty, antibiotic resistance because of mass livestock keeping and consequences to the environment.
- bitshiftfaced 6y agoThey looked at 70,000 expectant swedish mothers who got the flu vaccine and couldn't find a relationship with incidence of autism. Would you ask us to be skeptical over the results of that study because all of these women's bodies are different, the infinite variables, and the fact that we don't have perfect information about human bodies?