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Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by vxNsr on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:10AM (#36772554)
Interestingly, there is some gaming of the main number everyone looks at on the nutrition facts chart: calories per serving.

All snacks aim to fall at or below a certain number the FDA (or some other agency) put out as being considered a snack. Planet Money did an episode on different M&M varieties having different total weights to account for their different calorie counts. So you get fewer by weight peanut butter M&Ms because they’re more calorie rich

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Re:Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials by taeric on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:50PM (#36775515)
This doesn't sound bad to me? At large, people eat a package of whatever snack they choose to buy. Also at large, people assume different packages of snacks should be roughly comparable for important metrics. And calorie count is probably up there for important metrics.
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