From: Keith Elis (hagbard@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 16:28:13 MDT
Happened across this article today, which seems relevant to the recent
spate of diet threads.
So far, it seems that all anyone really knows about nutrition is that
too much of almost everything is bad, and too little of almost
everything is also bad. The infuriating part of this is that no one can
agree on what 'just enough of everything' means. I haven't the least bit
of confidence that any of these nutritionists know what they're talking
about.
If every physicist with a half-baked 'new' interpretation of QM saw the
chance to inaugurate the next 'physics fad' with a mass-market paperback
hyped to the gullible public, the real science being done in physics
would inevitably be drowned-out by the din of cranks. I suspect
nutritional science is in this kind of predicament today. There is a
demand for cranks. Wait around long enough, and even the diet of a 500
pound bed-ridden obese person will come into vogue.
Keith
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=1&u=/nyt/20
030429/ts_nyt/vitamins__more_may_be_too_many
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