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The citations on that site look legit. It's not exactly my field, but the titles and the journal names both scan like mainstream science, i.e. technical and res
by takluyver 13y ago
The citations on that site look legit. It's not exactly my field, but the titles and the journal names both scan like mainstream science, i.e. technical and restrained.
However, those references are all about methods of raising animals. This article is on quite a different topic, nutrient content in plants. I'm wary of the way a host of mostly unspecified compounds are lumped together as 'phytonutrients' and presented as universally beneficial. I've never heard that term before, and it's got the same kind of ring as 'detox'. There's plenty of chemicals in plants that really aren't good for us - see for example this review of legumes: http://tinyurl.com/pydm56o http://tinyurl.com/pydm56o (email me if you're interested but don't have access).
It roughly fits into the ideas of the 'paleolithic diet', that what people ate ~20k years ago is nutritionally optimal. That's controversial, and it looks like Wikipedia has quite a detailed entry on it.