CKinnard wrote:These definitions and what they represent, will remain a serious confounder of comparative nutrition long after you and I die Nobody.
I hope you're wrong, but if the system keeps on going as it is, with this slow rate of change, then I can see you being right about this.
CKinnard wrote:All we can do is be crystal clear about what is being studied, and compared.
I haven't found studies to be overly clear about the specifics of what the subjects ate. Which sometimes can give a free kick to opponents of the way we eat. Like above, I doubt we'll see much change.
CKinnard wrote:I've been reminded over the last week of how fragile human nature is, at least in the West.
Health consumers are happy to pay good money to buy into lying on a massage, chiropractic, or physio table on the promise of feeling a little better afterwards. But the thought of changing to a healthier diet stimulates visceral repulsion.
The enormity of this disconnect was further highlighted when I suggested to work colleagues we have a May healthy eating and weight loss challenge! The wall of psychic resistance was palpable!
It's nice that you keep trying. I rarely bother as no-one is paying me to inflict other peoples' disdain onto myself.
You've heard me say this before, but maybe someone else might read this:
I've had people indicate that food is their greatest pleasure in life. When we ask them to change, we are working against many peoples' greatest addiction. On top of that we are seen to be insulting their chosen lifestyle, possibly the way they were raised and their weight/size. They will go to their grave eating the junk they've known and loved for decades, along with their meds. Some would literally rather die than change. Strange world...
As the saying goes, "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." It's taken the food industries decades to indoctrinate the "the illusion of knowledge" via marketing. So that now animal protein (is there another kind?), calcium and iron are the most important elements of diet. Too bad that they are all toxic in large doses. And a multi-vitamin pill is taken as a cover-all for any other dietary indiscretions. Let's not worry about the fibre...
As you've also highlighted in the past. The above is only part of the puzzle. People are more lazy, time poor and stressed than previously. With a different value set and family structure to decades ago.
Too cynical? I don't think so.