Nutrition is like Audiophilia. Lots of bullshit with little pockets of truth.

Why is it that when someone tells me about how I should eat - especially “nutritionists”, mental guards go up in my mind until I see a research paper or some evidence. I don’t, absolutely don’t believe anything I read or hear about nutrition. Just like the audiophile industry.

It’s infested with the pseudoscience, marketing assholes and fitness folks who clearly have no desire to learn about the truth, evidence or scientific data.

I once searched for which vegetables have the highest concentration of nutrition on Google. After pages and pages of blog spam, men’s magazines and Rachel Ray type nonsense, I stumbled upon a paper from Johns Hopkins about Top 100 healthiest vegetables. They disclosed the exact formula of how the score is calculated. Number 1 was water-crest, Spinach was 7th or 8th and Kale was way back in 50+ rank. I will edit my comment with the link to the paper if I can find it.

I have zero trust in nutrition information on the internet or any popular media. And nutritionists.

That ranking of vegetables matches about what I’d expect if they had rough dollar/nutrition parity. I love water cress but its massively more expensive than kale by weight. In this sense ranking “healthiest” as if it were a choice between infinite amounts of each doesn’t make sense when fresh vegetables are actually pretty expensive.