Some science gets done to gather metrics. Those metrics get oversimplified into broad public advice. Following this advice to the letter circumvents both the pu

Some science gets done to gather metrics. Those metrics get oversimplified into broad public advice. Following this advice to the letter circumvents both the public messaging intent and the related science. "Do what we meant not what we said." I would put most of the blame on the science communicators / policy advisers. But it also doesn't help that there is a large mismatch between how definitive nutritional science is vs how hungry for science-based nutritional advice the public seems to be.