Sat, Jan-21-23, 04:12
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Senior Member
Posts: 14,684
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
BF:
Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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From the article:
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The magazine tried to appease law schools this month by making rankings changes, but it has yet to respond to expressions of concern by hundreds of doctors and others about how the annual “Best Diets” list also has serious problems and is the product of scant scientific backing.
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I agree. To the point that the whole "ranking" thing frankly... rankles me.
Thanks to the magnetic attraction of such lists, we've become even more obsessed with the gold, and scorning silver and bronze. Which makes sense when it's about who passed the finish line first, because we have stop watches. But the difference between gold, silver, and bronze is miniscule. At that level of elite athletic competition, it comes down to who is coming down with the flu that day.
Okay for medals, not okay in a complicated world where I just watched Nina Teicholz cover the lack of scientific support behind the leading contenders. Like the DASH diet, which was tested on 200 people before being unleashed upon the public.
I've come to see Dr. Ancel Keys devotion to his career as the root from which all this arrogance, all of this finger-wagging scolding with no evidence, came from. This is a long tale of baaaad science. When they didn't get what they expected, over and over... and just buried that study.
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