100% of people who drink water in their lives have died. And 100% of people who developed cancer have drunk water. That's solid proof right there that water is in fact bad for you. Illuminati confirmed.
This is a great post! Also timely as I was recently thinking about the claim that a vegan diet impairs mood and I was wondering if you have done or would do a deep dive on the topic?
I agree with most of this, but I think you're underplaying the difficulty of getting nutrition right.
> the common sense things that have stood the test of time:
Eat wholegrains
Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables
Don’t eat loads of saturated fat
Exercise, drink less, don’t smoke, etc.
None of these is really "common sense". I'm pretty sure they're largely true (the saturated fat one possibly less true that was thought 40 years ago, but yes, probably true), but they're anything but "common sense". 250 years ago, most people thought fruit and vegetables were bad for you. Smoking was genuinely considered outright healthy by basically everyone until at least the 1930s, and it took several decades more to become common knowledge that it was bad news. I suspect most people still think "moderate drinking" is good for you (it isn't).
I'm not really sure what you mean by giving me the benefit of the doubt. If you just mean that you doubt the article because there was in fact just as much quackery thirty years ago than there is now, then all I can say is that it seemed like there was less when I was younger. It's possible I'm wrong about that, I was only a child, but it's not really the main point of the piece anyway
100% of people who drink water in their lives have died. And 100% of people who developed cancer have drunk water. That's solid proof right there that water is in fact bad for you. Illuminati confirmed.
The top of the evidence pyramid is news articles about studies that prove that coffee is good for you.
Well, this is so obvious I figured I didn't even need to add it to the article
This is a great post! Also timely as I was recently thinking about the claim that a vegan diet impairs mood and I was wondering if you have done or would do a deep dive on the topic?
Never considered it, but I think that's a good idea! Thanks for the recc, I'll stick it in my backlog and do some reading
I agree with most of this, but I think you're underplaying the difficulty of getting nutrition right.
> the common sense things that have stood the test of time:
Eat wholegrains
Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables
Don’t eat loads of saturated fat
Exercise, drink less, don’t smoke, etc.
None of these is really "common sense". I'm pretty sure they're largely true (the saturated fat one possibly less true that was thought 40 years ago, but yes, probably true), but they're anything but "common sense". 250 years ago, most people thought fruit and vegetables were bad for you. Smoking was genuinely considered outright healthy by basically everyone until at least the 1930s, and it took several decades more to become common knowledge that it was bad news. I suspect most people still think "moderate drinking" is good for you (it isn't).
Your lack of criticism of 30 years ago orthodoxy has me struggling to give you benefit of the doubt. Have you expanded on this anywhere?
Trans fats? Dietary cholesterol vs blood cholesterol causation? Low fat diets?
I'm not really sure what you mean by giving me the benefit of the doubt. If you just mean that you doubt the article because there was in fact just as much quackery thirty years ago than there is now, then all I can say is that it seemed like there was less when I was younger. It's possible I'm wrong about that, I was only a child, but it's not really the main point of the piece anyway