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Fair enough, but the article isn't about weight loss and a lot of research is done on how X food affects the chances of getting Y chronic condition later in lif
by true_religion 12y ago
Fair enough, but the article isn't about weight loss and a lot of research is done on how X food affects the chances of getting Y chronic condition later in life or how to best feed your children so they grow up to their full potential. It's pretty uninteresting to reduce nutrition science to simple dieting.
- bronbron 12y agoSure, you're right that the article isn't about weight loss, but the original comment I was responding to was: > Because a lot of people are suffering and dying of poor nutrition In the developed world, they're mostly suffering and dying because of overconsumption (or reasonable consumption of really high-calorie food). I'm not trying to say that I think it's as simple as 'put down the fork fatty!' or 'put the twinkie down!'. I'm saying that instead of focusing on 'oh don't eat too many carbs' or 'lower your salt intake' as a silver bullet to 'why is our nutrition shit?', we should maybe be asking those harder questions: why is it so hard to put down the fork? how can we make it easier to be conscious of our caloric consumption?
- pessimizer 12y agoNot all of the questions that we ask about digestion should be related to figuring out how to get people to lose weight.