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How Nutrition Science (Mis)Leads to Dietary Advice, and the 20% Madness.

How Nutrition Science (Mis)Leads to Dietary Advice, and the 20% Madness.

A look at nutritional research & shortcomings.

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May 22, 2021
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How Nutrition Science (Mis)Leads to Dietary Advice, and the 20% Madness.
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Nutrition science is a mess, basically. A scientific discipline that is riddled with debates, obscurities, ambiguities, myths, and false positives. I used to entertain the idea of studying nutrition. I am glad, I didn’t. It’s extremely interesting, yet outrageously misleading and corrupted.

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