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The biggest indicator of health is nutrition, yet it's one of the most poorly understood topics in medicine. Ask five different doctors and you'll get five dif

The biggest indicator of health is nutrition, yet it's one of the most poorly understood topics in medicine. Ask five different doctors and you'll get five different responses as to what are the accepted parameters in a healthy diet. What we need is a concerted research effort by governments to make headway in figuring this thing out instead of relying on research by teams funded by large agribusiness conglomerates. We also need (at least in the US) to start regulating what goes into our food. It's unacceptable to call something "lite" when you've just stripped out healthy fats and added chemical fillers made from corn sugar. It's just as unacceptable that someone can graduate from high school without knowing how to balance a checkbook, open a checking account, or know that you should probably be reading the nutritional labels on the back of the food products you purchase... it's a societal failure.

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DanBC 12y ago
> Ask five different doctors and you'll get five different responses as to what are the accepted parameters in a healthy diet. You really wont. It'll be pretty much advice about eating a varied diet, not too much fat, salt, or sugar, with a lot of vegetables and a wide range of fruit and veg.
- Domenic_S 12y ago
  You really will. Eggs, for example, have been controversial forever [0]. And who could forget the USDA Food Pyramid, encouraging people to eat 6-11 servings of carbs [1]? The 90s heralded the low-fat craze with the mantra "Sugar doesn't make you fat. Fat makes you fat." [2] We've swung the other way in recent years with the anti-carb options that started in earnest with Atkins and branched out to keto/paleo. Nutrition is tricky and is heavily marketed by extremely powerful industries. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=eggs+health+controversy https://www.google.com/search?q=eggs+health+controversy [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Food_Pyramid.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Food... [2] http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-10-25/features/1998298194_1_sugar-makes-you-fat-premature-aging http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-10-25/features/1998298...

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DanBC 12y ago

> Ask five different doctors and you'll get five different responses as to what are the accepted parameters in a healthy diet. You really wont. It'll be pretty much advice about eating a varied diet, not too much fat, salt, or sugar, with a lot of vegetables and a wide range of fruit and veg.

Domenic_S 12y ago
You really will. Eggs, for example, have been controversial forever [0]. And who could forget the USDA Food Pyramid, encouraging people to eat 6-11 servings of carbs [1]? The 90s heralded the low-fat craze with the mantra "Sugar doesn't make you fat. Fat makes you fat." [2] We've swung the other way in recent years with the anti-carb options that started in earnest with Atkins and branched out to keto/paleo. Nutrition is tricky and is heavily marketed by extremely powerful industries. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=eggs+health+controversy https://www.google.com/search?q=eggs+health+controversy [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Food_Pyramid.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Food... [2] http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-10-25/features/1998298194_1_sugar-makes-you-fat-premature-aging http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-10-25/features/1998298...