After decades of turning wrong nutrition advice into public policy [1], nutrition “science” is conducting experiments they hope will translate into doctors prescribing precisely what each of us should eat for optimal health – based on algorithms and AI tools. Nutrition “science” aims to crank this up to 11.
Now, they are creating “precision nutrition” that will use algorithms and artificial intelligence to determine precisely what you should be eating:
If all goes according to plan, in a few years you’ll be able to walk into your doctor’s office, get a few simple medical tests, answer questions about your health and lifestyle, and receive personalized diet advice, says Holly Nicastro, coordinator for the NIH’s Nutrition for Precision Health study.
What, Exactly, Should You Eat? It’s a $190 Million Question – WSJ
They’ve decided that “public” recommendations for diet and nutrition didn’t work because they need to be tailored to the needs of the individual (sort of sounds like a “Duh?” moment?) Similarly, the “Food Pyramid” is revised every 5 years suggesting they have no idea what they have been doing.
Nutrition for Precision Health seeks to move away from population-based nutrition advice in order to provide personalized nutritional guidance based on a deeper understanding of the complex interactions between an individual’s diet, genes, proteins, microbiome, metabolism, environment, and lifestyle. Moreover, the initiative seeks to leverage the latest advances in artificial intelligence to develop algorithms to predict individual responses to specific foods and dietary patterns.
NIH and ASN See a Bright Future for Precision Nutrition – American Society for Nutrition
No comments to the story support this project – public health/nutrition has lost the confidence of the public.
We know the outcome of this study – pretty much the same as all the other ones.
You’ll get a vegetarian diet prescribed by a doctor, with 20 ingredients you can’t find in most stores, to achieve health perfection. And if you can find the items, they’ll cost much and take a lot of prep time and require an app to schedule what you eat and when. Yet for many, eating this way may lead to serious health problems requiring expensive medical testing to try and resolve – and probably make more money for BigPharma. Or, you could have just eaten a hamburger and not end up vitamin b12 deficient (which is not a minor health problem).
I just completed several years as an “accidental vegetarian” – I drifted into it. If you had asked me if I was vegetarian, I would have said no. But I was having some stir-fried chicken in a dish once or twice per month, drastically cut dairy consumption, are no fortified cereals, did not take vitamins, etc. I did everything wrong. During that time I also had hepatitis, which can drain the liver’s store of b12. And I crashed.
During the last two years, migraines, visual auras, and scotomas (blind areas in my field of vision) occurred multiple times per day. I began to have dizziness at times, twice it was so bad I could not stand up. My hair began shedding and I lost muscle mass, which made pre-existing osteoarthritis worse. I had chronic fatigue and brain fog.
After spending over $5,000 out of pocket (due to our typical ACA ObamaCare policy with a $19,600 family deductible) on medical and blood lab tests trying to figure out what was wrong, I accidentally discovered I was vitamin B12 deficient. Within 48-72 hours of taking B12, all of my migraines, scotomas, visual auras and dizziness ended. Hair shedding ended. Within a few weeks, brain fog began clearing and energy levels rebounded. (Yes, I have been working with my doctor on this.) More than a month later, all of the above appears to be gone for good.
The above is what happens when you listen to “experts” who are religious evangelistsand are influenced by the media’s obsession with telling us we would all be healthier if we ate vegetarian or vegan. They promote hypothetical benefits without mentioning risks – doing that style of eating properly is not a simple endeavor. The only book I read on vegetarian eating mentioned vitamin b12 in two sentences on page 276 and 277 – literally buried deep inside the book; it should have been in chapter 1.
DO NOT eat vegetarian UNLESS you consult with your doctor, you meet and consult with a registered dietician, and pay to have periodic blood tests done every year. Vegetarian eating is not something you casually drift into doing – you need expert advice (and preferably not from an evangelist) and you need to track your nutrients in a spreadsheet or app – or eventually it will catch up to you. (Your body may store enough B12 for a few years, especially if you are a young person – and you can go for years before you your B12 reserve hits empty.)
What I have learned in life:
- Ignore nutrition advice – it has a long reputation for junk science.
- If you are overweight it is because you are eating too much.
- Instead of asking, “How can I lose weight?” ask yourself, “Why am I gaining weight?”
- You don’t need a doctor’s prescription for weight loss drugs. You don’t need to buy the latest dietary fad books. You don’t need to take drugs. You need to eat less.
- This list applies to most people (obviously there are some exceptions)
I used to eat 3 meals a day, have a latte in the morning, a snack in the afternoon, and a snack or even a desert in the evening. Today, I skip breakfast, eat lunch and dinner, and am careful about snacking. I cannot believe I used to eat so much.
I used to believe I controlled my weight through exercise – but we control our weight through how much we eat.
Lose weight and your blood pressure will likely go down, your risk of diabetes will drop dramatically, as will risk for other diseases.
Before nutrition science existed, most people were not overweight. Since nutrition science entered our lives in the 1980s onward and obesity became a national epidemic. Think about that.
Nutrition science is now tying what you eat to the ClimateCrisis – and will begin ordering you to eat vegetarian “to save the planet”, based on their models. Your health, your needs and your life mean nothing to the nutrition evangelists.
[1] In the late 1970s, early 1980s, the USDA decided we were to eliminate as much fat from our diets as possible. Really. As in not use or consume any fat at all, in foods, is possible. My wife’s employer (a pharma company) held company meetings to teach us the new dietary advice. A guy sitting behind me asked during Q&A, “So we reduce fat, but sugar is ok?” The two Registered Dieticians said “Yes” – you only need to worry about sugar in terms of tooth decay or diabetes, otherwise consuming sugar was okay. I worked as an engineer in a tech company – even we had a company meeting to discuss the new dietary guidelines. People today have no idea how this junk science was promoted to the masses. This is when fake manufactured food began being labeled as “no fat” or “low fat”. This is the era when apples were marketed as “No cholesterol”. The whole world went insane.
Over the next several decades, most of the U.S. population became obese. There are many books you can read to learn more about this disastrous nutrition policy.
