Nutritional Science is broken

[longknife]

First, eggs were good. Then they were bad. Then good again. Now, in this past March, they not good again.


What the heck is going on?

So which is it? Is the egg good or bad? And, while we are on the subject, when so much of what we are told about diet, health, and weight loss is inconsistent and contradictory, can we believe any of it?

Quite frankly, probably not. Nutrition research tends to be unreliable because nearly all of it is based on observational studies, which are imprecise, have no controls, and don’t follow an experimental method. As nutrition-research critics Edward Archer and Carl Lavie have put it, “’Nutrition’ is now a degenerating research paradigm in which scientifically illiterate methods, meaningless data, and consensus-driven censorship dominate the empirical landscape.”

In other words, no hard science. Just opinions.


More @ Nutrition Science Is Broken. This New Egg Study Shows Why.

 

[Ringel05]

First, eggs were good. Then they were bad. Then good again. Now, in this past March, they not good again.


What the heck is going on?

So which is it? Is the egg good or bad? And, while we are on the subject, when so much of what we are told about diet, health, and weight loss is inconsistent and contradictory, can we believe any of it?

Quite frankly, probably not. Nutrition research tends to be unreliable because nearly all of it is based on observational studies, which are imprecise, have no controls, and don’t follow an experimental method. As nutrition-research critics Edward Archer and Carl Lavie have put it, “’Nutrition’ is now a degenerating research paradigm in which scientifically illiterate methods, meaningless data, and consensus-driven censorship dominate the empirical landscape.”

In other words, no hard science. Just opinions.


More @ Nutrition Science Is Broken. This New Egg Study Shows Why.

Nutrition science has never been all that great and should be called Nutrition Merlinism and labeled under the category of fiction and fantasy, not science.

 

[Dekster]

Not sure about nutritional science but I can't imagine basil, mostly raw asparagus, mushrooms and eggs going that well together.

 

[Muhammed]

First, eggs were good. Then they were bad. Then good again. Now, in this past March, they not good again.


What the heck is going on?

So which is it? Is the egg good or bad? And, while we are on the subject, when so much of what we are told about diet, health, and weight loss is inconsistent and contradictory, can we believe any of it?

Quite frankly, probably not. Nutrition research tends to be unreliable because nearly all of it is based on observational studies, which are imprecise, have no controls, and don’t follow an experimental method. As nutrition-research critics Edward Archer and Carl Lavie have put it, “’Nutrition’ is now a degenerating research paradigm in which scientifically illiterate methods, meaningless data, and consensus-driven censorship dominate the empirical landscape.”

In other words, no hard science. Just opinions.


More @ Nutrition Science Is Broken. This New Egg Study Shows Why.

The whole eggs are bad for you canard was really based on the fact that eggs are high in saturated fat. It was based on a highly publicized fraudulent "scientific" paper by Ancel Keyes. What he did was inject confirmation bias into his study to make an artificial trend line that correlated heart disease and dietary saturated fat by cherry picking data that supported his hypothesis while eliminating data that didn't. It was junk science that had far reaching ramifications.

Decades later Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes would take a page out of the Ancel Keyes book with the fraudulent "Mike's Nature Trick" to make a trend line correlating CO2 and temperature in the now infamous Hockey Schtick Chart.

There's a special place in hell for those assholes.

 

[initforme]

Organic eggs only here....no chemical eggs, meat, or processed foods in this house. A lot less doctor visits because of it. But keep eating that fast food.....mmm good.

 

[harmonica]

obesity causes a lot of problems
a lot of Americans eat too much and do not exercise
US number 1 obese country
Global Obesity Levels - Obesity - ProCon.org
genes also affect our health
How do genes affect your health?
it's more complicated than nutritional science

 

[Manonthestreet]

All I know is my dad and his family all grew up drinking not just whole milk but milk with cream still in it, eating eggs fried in bacon grease, and lots o red meat. Dad's blood pressure was lower than ours.

 

[80zephyr]

Science can't figure out a simple egg yet they KNOW that mankind is causing global warming.

Too funny.

Mark