Follow the links to more detail: --If you want a quick primer on everything thats wrong with how we think about food today, read Are some diets mass murder? in the British Medical Journal. Dr. Richard Smith, the former editor of the journal, combed through five of the most popular nutrition science books of the last several years. In this sentence, he perfectly encapsulates why we have been led astray on food: In short, bold policies have been based on fragile science, and the long term results may be terrible. Smith explains why studies on diet and nutrition are so unreliable, borrowing insights from Nina Teicholzs fantastic book The Big Fat Surprise to unpick the low-fat and Mediterranean Diet crazes. Many of the health policies and personal dietary choices we made related to fat (and saturated fat in particular) were based on very flawed and biased evidence. Contradictory research findings that challenged the paradigm were systematically stifled and ignored, and self-interested researchers — as much as Big Food — shaped the research agenda, media reporting on diet, and public perception.-- It is too often the case that the experts lack expertise, the intellectuals lack intellect, and the scientists unfortunately dont do science. vox/2014/12/29/7463349/nutrition-science-flaws
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