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Re:World's Obese Population Hits 641M by shiven on Sunday May 08, 2016 @08:00AM (#11653663)
Where should the bar be set for scientists to exceed?

In the current funding climate and the well known publish(fast and crazy)-or-perish 'incentives', I find it hard to find fault with the bar set for scientists. (Disclosure: I'm one. Although not in nutrition science.)

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Re:World's Obese Population Hits 641M by pessimizer on Sunday May 08, 2016 @08:04AM (#11653674)
Their recommendations should be reliable in order to achieve some effect, and have some physical basis. Nutrition science has been terrible at this. They have generally been better at this than the reporters who read their breathless press releases, though. I'm a middle-aged man, and virtually everything they told my parents, and me when I grew up in the 70s and 80s was wrong, and some of it actively harmful.
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