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> My opinion is that we should reconsider the ethics around researching nutrition, because it's been an overall failure That just isn’t true. Advances in nutri
by sonthonax 4y ago
> My opinion is that we should reconsider the ethics around researching nutrition, because it's been an overall failure
That just isn’t true. Advances in nutritional science have had a major impact. Vitamin C made transatlantic shipping empires far more viable. The discovery of folate eliminated a whole class of birth defects. Fluoride improved the oral health of nations. The whole reason that nutritional science has any credulity today is that it had an unequivocal positive effect on mankind’s quality of life at barely any cost.