Given that these studies and the information gathered through them are used to justify a lot of dietary guidelines, this is big news. These self-reported data on diet and exercise have long been called flawed. But a paper published Tuesday in the International Journal of Obesity goes one step further. The authors, led by David Allison, director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, write, [The data] are so poor as measures of actual [energy intake] and [physical activity energy expenditure] that they no longer have a justifiable place in scientific research. npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/14/377238265/we-lie-about-what-we-eat-and-its-messing-up-science
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:38:01 +0000
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