Bacon, soda & too few nuts tied to big portion of US deaths

[David_Driver]

Was that Woody Allen or Woody Guthrie?

[Chris_W]

Epidemiology by itself is not a problem, nor its studies, as long as they don’t try to draw conclusions about nutrition, which is what they always end up doing.

Observational epidemiology at least WRT nutrition is at best only a way to identify questions to study by means of real RCT’s. By themselves they really tell you nothing conclusive.

[Chris_W]

You don’t have to be an expert to decode these, if a study contains the following line, it’s complete shit.

Dietary factors were estimated to be associated with a substantial proportion of

Ha ha, exactly. That line is code for “we don’t have anything to show for the money we spent doing this study, so here’s some crap we made up.”

[Mike_W_Ellwood]

Was that Woody Allen or Woody Guthrie?

Well a lot of these attributions are questionable, and on googling I found (without looking too hard) both Woody Allen and Spike Milligan cited, so who knows. I does sound like Allen’s style of humour though.

[John]

My Father-in-law bought a bottle if this since he knows I eat a lot of bacon…don’t think he understands the sugar part though lol.

[bokkiedog]

There are plenty of indications that eating high carb and high fat together are disastrous: think doughnuts.

But you won’t find them in this confounded and tendentious math torture. Beware of using bad pseudoscience as the buttress of even a useful hypothesis.

[djindy]

It’s more an educated guess based on actually a considerable amount of research and real science (a lot of those poor experiments that “demonstrate” a low carb diet either isn’t beneficial or is harmful actually just end up showing what happens when you manipulate ratios within a SAD, still not low-carb diet), rather than pseudoscience, but still a guess or speculation. Hence, as I said, it’s an area that could use some real research.