Free Yourself From the Soft Tyranny of Nutrition Studies
7th March 2018
Nutrition studies are confusing and mostly useless for regular people. I do not say that just because a leading nutrition researcher has been exposed for manipulating data for years and years. I say it because most nutrition studies test the validity of small claims that just don’t matter in the larger scheme of living a life you love, and because the problems that ail us at the population level cannot be fixed with a bandolier of colloidal silver bullets. There is no “supplement” that can cure heart disease, or melt away obesity, or reverse the effects of inhaling a carcinogen all day, every day, for decades.
If you don’t pay attention to nutrition studies, then you won’t look like a fool when two (or five, or ten) years later they come out with another study that says, ‘You remember what we told you about X? Well, Never Mind. Turns out it’s good for you, not bad for you.’