I found this funny on another website.

When I finish my Naturopathy degree I plan to go into nutrtional research.
I agree with you how they(scientists etc) have a reductionist approach to food. I think it’s so silly considering food is not one nutrient but a whole food and food does not act as one nutrient but as many macronutrents and micronutriets that act synergistically. But I can also understand it would be difficult to test whole foods and diets as there are so many factors involved in doing that.
The way I think about it is they shouldn’t have to have so much evidence to eat certain things we know are healthy (and are common sense). But this isn’t really the case, because not everyone knows what really is healthy, so of course nutritional science and research is so very important.

You know how you wrote”is it old?”, what do you mean by that?

Michelle.
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It’s a shame that food manufacturers can make such claims without approval. It allows them to basically do whatever they want and all they have to do is change the label if they receive a complaint that is serious enough. Unfortunately, even if there was an approval process, we can’t really trust the FDA anyway when they have standards that allow labels to claim 0g of things like trans fat and sugar as long as there’s less than 0.5g per serving.

As with most things, the bottom line is that consumers need to be more informed, and that requires some effort on their own part to read articles like this one.
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What was Michael Pollan’s criteria? If your grandmother or great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize it as food, avoid it.
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