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Blue Zones Website Misrepresents Diets
In her latest post Dr Cate Shanahan, author of Deep Nutrition discusses the Blue Zones book. Apparently doctors who want to learn more about nutrition are told the book is backed up by science. But, as she says, is it really?
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Blue Zones Website Misrepresents Diets
The Blue Zones book was a huge phenomenon when it first came out, and its influence is still growing. Released in 2008, it describes the diets of four geographic regions with a disproportionately high percentage of people older than 100. But it wasn’t the scientific endeavor many believe it to be.
Dan Buettner, the author, is a journalist. He interviewed several scientists, but the book was not scientifically vetted in any way. The bigger issue is that the Seventh Day Adventist church paid for his travels and likely designed and edited the book, as well.
If you don’t already know, the Adventist church advocates for a mostly vegetarian diet. As a result of this bias, the Blue Zones book is full of contradictory content of the kind you would expect when a journalist reports what he saw, and a biased editor tries to make those observations fit his or her worldview. The result of this square-peg-round-hole relationship is that the big, bold recommendations at the end of the chapters conflict with the content within the chapters.
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