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Comment by basilgohar

I believe this kind of study will shed more light on how much more we have to learn about nutrition and how our body processes and metabolizes nutrients.

I think a lot of nutrition has been, for lack of a better term, very basic and somewhat stoicimetric - fat consumed equals fat stored, cholesterol consumed equals cholesterol stored, and also treating manufactured sugars (e.g., High Fructose Corn Syrup) as equal to natural sugars such as what's found in fruits and honey.

This and many other studies have shown that this parity between input/output is not what happens nor is it an adequate reflection of how our body works. Treating the body as a simple machine in this manner is very naïve and has lead, in my opinion, to a huge amount of misapplied health advice or just outright wrong policies.

Of course, the factors driving this have profited handsomely from this misdirection, but that's another angle suitable for it's own thread.

parent basilgohar 3 years ago

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