So I studied as a scientist (physicist) and have a high bar for what constitutes a meaningful scientific study and scientific result. A food frequency questionnaire, of the sort this study's results are based on, means very little scientifically. No meaningful result can be drawn, and I consider it borderline immoral, given the type of affect this could have on people's behaviors, to assert a conclusion based on such poorly conducted research.
Asking people to quantify their eating habits over the previous several years and expect to have meaningful quantitative results is impossible. I can barely quantify my eating habits over the last few months. There are just far too many variables that cannot be controlled for in such research as to render any conclusion impossible.
We need meaningful nutritional research, desperately, and this just isn't it. It angers me deeply that this passes as science that will get reported on, used as "proof" in justifying recommendations, etc.
Asking people to quantify their eating habits over the previous several years and expect to have meaningful quantitative results is impossible. I can barely quantify my eating habits over the last few months. There are just far too many variables that cannot be controlled for in such research as to render any conclusion impossible.
We need meaningful nutritional research, desperately, and this just isn't it. It angers me deeply that this passes as science that will get reported on, used as "proof" in justifying recommendations, etc.