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The problem is acting like we do understand nutrition because a few new studies say something is bad. Especially when you start digging into the funding of sai
by lsniddy 11y ago
The problem is acting like we do understand nutrition because a few new studies say something is bad. Especially when you start digging into the funding of said studies.
There is very little evidence to prove saturated fats are bad, but plenty to prove sugar is. Yet you don't see the policy makers telling us to eat less corn.
Also trans-fats (the ones that are bad) do not occur in nature which seems to be of the best predictors of whether something is net-good for you or not.
- derekp7 11y agoI don't quite understand the logic of "natural" being "good for you" and "not-natural" being "bad for you". For example, the glasses sitting on my nose are not natural, yet without them I wouldn't be able to see too well. And the sanitation and water supply systems are an improvement to what was there otherwise (i.e., people dumping their chamber pots into the street). And yet, if I stumble across a copperhead snake, I'm going to avoid it even though it is natural. And don't forget that tobacco is natural.