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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
The problem is, for every well-done study that shows correct information, there are 10-20 horribly done studies, manipulated to show what "everyone knows" about nutrition. You can even look at the exact same study, and see how its figures are twisted and manipulated to show what they want. If you leave the figures alone, it's a completely different outcome.
As long as that continues, it will still be "everyone knows" salt is bad for you, "everyone knows" fat makes you fat, "everyone knows" etc. Meanwhile, we get fatter and sicker than ever before, dying from diseases that never existed just decades ago  |
And not everyone is willing to spend the time reading about study design and beyond the abstract to see if they ARE good studies let alone come up with their own conclusions from data.
The reason that people fall back on the "everyone knows..." is because they're lazy.
Take intermittent fasting as an example on revscene here. You have basically everyone in this forum except for me and sonick saying "OMG, 6 meal a day or your muscles get catabolized!" while a large body of research has shown that oh wait, that's not true. In fact, more protein in one sitting could actually be better than protein multiple times a day.
Everyone wants shortcuts and this is one way they do it. If you keep arguing with idiots, the only thing that will happen is that you'll repeatedly
wondering how people can be so dumb