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I'd say no, the worst kind is asking people what they ate over the last year
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(Werebear, I edited the typo to what I think you meant.)
Once upon a time, with great enthusiasm, I joined the NWLR--National Weight Loss Registry (or something like that.) I was excited about my low-carb weight loss and maintenance.
But wait!! Nothing on their diet questionnaire allowed for LC or anything other than calorie-counting methods. And what about “What did you eat for breakfast last February?"
The aggregate of their hundreds of participants always came up: Low-cal/low-fat plus exercise. Their follow-up with me expired after about two years. No more questionnaires. That’s not what I’d call long-term.
Dr. Atkins got plenty of flak from “science” for his dietary theories based on what? Based initially on what happened to
him when he experimented with low-carb. Don’t bother to ask his many clinical patients how much they enjoyed their regained health (and beauty).
Yes, Atkins wrote a book aiming to be a popular and profitable bestseller. But he did not neglect appropriate medical guidance tailored to each and every person. Scientists in labs do not sit with weeping diabetics day after day.
Thank goodness for science! Gives us vaccines, cancer therapies (lots and lots of those because come to find out there are lots of different cancers!) and generic versions of those monstrously overpriced proprietary medicines.
But I digress. You can’t tell me “meta” anything is more reliable than the insights brought to healing by the clinicians.