Don’t be fooled by the health food delusion

I was tempted to put this in Conspiracy Theories but it really belongs here. :)



For those with a "tenuous grasp on dietary science" or the scientific method, or controlled studies, or statistics, or logic in general.

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Don’t be fooled by the health food delusion On the advice of dietitians, doctors, naturopaths and anyone with a unique idea for a dietary exclusion or tenuous grasp on dietary science, we deny ourselves much of the pleasure of eating. Vancouver doctor John Sloan has had a good look at all the science used to sell billions of dollars worth of supplements, so-called functional and health foods, and diet books, and finds it unimpressive. His new book, Forbidden Food, tackles the myths and the reality food-by-food, debunking bad science and exposing charlatans.

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Last year, an analysis of 72 studies involving 600,000 participants in 18 countries in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that consuming saturated fatty acid — found in meat, cheese and butter — was not associated with coronary disease risk. But, like planes landing safely at the airport, the media doesn’t report studies that find an absence of risk. Only the rare outliers merit headlines, the kind of headlines that charlatans seize on and exploit. Such was the case when researcher Peter Gibson reported in 2011 that gluten caused gastrointestinal symptoms in people who did not have Celiac Disease. The media went into overdrive and a multi-billion dollar market in gluten free foods was born. But when Gibson repeated his experiments in a more meticulous way, he could find no response to gluten. Nothing to see here, people. Move along.

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