Re:The Disaster of Superstition in Nutrition
by simonsarris on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:59PM
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Oh it's true.
From Credit Suisse Foundation in 2015: 54% surveyed doctors falsely believed eating cholesterol-rich food raises blood levels of cholesterol. Concluded: "Clear example of the level of misinformation that exists among doctors."
> Just read Harvard's nutritional advice pages
Haha. The Economist: A researcher at the University of California uncovered documents from 1967 showing that sugar companies secretly funded studies at Harvard University designed to blame fat—not sugar—for the growing obesity epidemic
From Credit Suisse Foundation in 2015: 54% surveyed doctors falsely believed eating cholesterol-rich food raises blood levels of cholesterol. Concluded: "Clear example of the level of misinformation that exists among doctors."
> Just read Harvard's nutritional advice pages
Haha. The Economist: A researcher at the University of California uncovered documents from 1967 showing that sugar companies secretly funded studies at Harvard University designed to blame fat—not sugar—for the growing obesity epidemic
from: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/death-of-the-calorie