"In the fight against obesity, should science matter? It depends on whom you ask. The answer may surprise you, and could make you realize that you shouldn't always trust the do-gooders."The do-gooders often care more about being able to tell you what to do than about whether what they're telling you is correct. And even if they're occasionally correct, does being right as often as a stopped clock make them good advisors? Sorry, "rulers" is a better word than "advisors"...
Monday, August 20, 2012
Junk Science About Junk Food
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I never trust nutritionists,they mean well but they are flawed. Biggest problem is that in the developed world, there is food everywhere you turn. We need to teach kids to leave food on their plate and not clear it.
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I think there is good nutrition science out there, such as the work of Robert Lustig. The trick is that the results of the good science are inconvenient to the profits of the food industry, so the good science is ignored or marginalized. And the food industry funds/promotes enormous volumes of junk science.
ReplyDeleteLustig's work isn't particularly good science... He's a doctor. The actual scientists are given fits by a lot of what he says, some of which is just inaccurate.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I agree that we eat too much sugar, I don't know anyone who doesn't agree with that. But fructose per se is pretty clearly not a toxin. The dose makes the poison...
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