Diet fads, research, industry profits

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Ignoramus6554 wrote:

Here's my take on it. [why nutrition advice changes so much, one day
meat is bad, another day carbs are bad]

Nutrition is a complex subject that is difficult to research. Many
studies, if formulated to give incontrovertible evidence, would be
either illegal, unethical, unfeasible, or would take too long and
would be too expensive.

So many studies are of much less useful style that studies
correlations and not causations. They are cheaper to do. When they are
reported, reporters forget about "correlation is not causation" and
other limits of their informational usefulness.

Then there is a lot of food faddists, food industry groups and people
with monetary interests jumping on the bandwagon trying to sell their
diets, food supplements, food groups, books etc. Makes it very
difficult to keep a level head and make decisions due to all this
noise.

It has, however, been well established that maintaining normal weight,
exercising, eating a sensible diet without sugar leads to improved
health. There is not a single study that would contradict this,
period. A sensible diet may be low fat or low carb, but it needs to
supply the body with necessary nutrients and fiber, and not be
extreme.

Some people do well on all vegetarian diet or on mostly meat diet or
whatnot. Those who dwell on it too much miss the point. The point is
to be healthy and slim on the diet that you like.

i

STUDY the Chinese Yin and YAN (Balance) sytems...If we had this sort
of BASIC understanding that they do..our population would equal
theirs..LO! B-0b1

Ignoramus6554 wrote:

Here's my take on it. [why nutrition advice changes so much, one day
meat is bad, another day carbs are bad]

Nutrition is a complex subject that is difficult to research. Many
studies, if formulated to give incontrovertible evidence, would be
either illegal, unethical, unfeasible, or would take too long and
would be too expensive.

So many studies are of much less useful style that studies
correlations and not causations. They are cheaper to do. When they are
reported, reporters forget about "correlation is not causation" and
other limits of their informational usefulness.

Then there is a lot of food faddists, food industry groups and people
with monetary interests jumping on the bandwagon trying to sell their
diets, food supplements, food groups, books etc. Makes it very
difficult to keep a level head and make decisions due to all this
noise.

It has, however, been well established that maintaining normal weight,
exercising, eating a sensible diet without sugar leads to improved
health. There is not a single study that would contradict this,
period. A sensible diet may be low fat or low carb, but it needs to
supply the body with necessary nutrients and fiber, and not be
extreme.

Some people do well on all vegetarian diet or on mostly meat diet or
whatnot. Those who dwell on it too much miss the point. The point is
to be healthy and slim on the diet that you like.

i YEAH SURE..NOT!! B-ob1