It seems to be understood that what we eat has a big impact on our short-term and long-term health, even beyond "veggie=good candy=bad".
However, in my experience, it's really hard to collect reliable data on diets because many of the effects of diets only manifest over decades and the effects of diets can vary depending on genes, sex and age. The average study would much prefer to give some college kids brocolli for 2 weeks and call it a day lmao. Every food supplier also has a vested interest not to see their foods get dunked on by the science, and will fund biased research and misleading ads.
In short, it seems to suffer the same fate all fields do that handle complicated issues with underlying political pressures lol.
It seems to be understood that what we eat has a big impact on our short-term and long-term health, even beyond "veggie=good candy=bad".
However, in my experience, it's really hard to collect reliable data on diets because many of the effects of diets only manifest over decades and the effects of diets can vary depending on genes, sex and age. The average study would much prefer to give some college kids brocolli for 2 weeks and call it a day lmao. Every food supplier also has a vested interest not to see their foods get dunked on by the science, and will fund biased research and misleading ads.
In short, it seems to suffer the same fate all fields do that handle complicated issues with underlying political pressures lol.
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