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It doesn't make sense to me to focus-fire a single nutrient of a food, find some reason to not maximize it in mice, and then use that to avoid whole foods that
by hombre_fatal 3y ago
It doesn't make sense to me to focus-fire a single nutrient of a food, find some reason to not maximize it in mice, and then use that to avoid whole foods that contain that nutrient, especially as a human.
A food could have all sorts of individual nutrients that look bad in isolation while the food only improves human health outcomes when put to the test.
- jfengel 3y agoRandomized controlled diet experiments over the lifetime of a human are pretty difficult. So they make do with what data they can get. Putting that data together to form a recommendation is incredibly difficult. If we could just get people not to imagine that it's trivial ("eat no isolucene and live forever"), we'd be several steps ahead of where we are.