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The entire food science industry is a long, sordid history of hubris in thinking that science has solved every aspect of human nutrition. - Vitamin supplements
by ryanbrunner 13y ago
The entire food science industry is a long, sordid history of hubris in thinking that science has solved every aspect of human nutrition.
- Vitamin supplements don't have nearly the efficacy as getting those vitamins from natural sources.
- Baby formula is universally accepted to be inferior in many ways to mother's milk, in ways that food science readily admits aren't completely known.
- Junk science like the lipid hypothesis are still regularly spouted, despite very little evidence that dietary fat has a direct correlation to bodily fat.
There's a world of difference between believing that food has some mystical power that transcends physics, and that we don't fully comprehend nutrition. Conflating the two isn't arguing in good faith.
Even the example of pet food is bunk - pets survive longer when domesticated because nearly all of the hazards they would face in the wild aren't present, not because their diet is better. There's plenty of evidence that pets benefit from raw meat diets far more than the carbohydrate-heavy diets that pet foods provide.