Nutrition: Disconnected from reality
Dietician says we should eat amaranth grain for high protein, yet just 1% of world's supply is grown in the U.S. and amaranth doesn't contain vitamin B-12.
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Dietician says we should eat amaranth grain for high protein, yet just 1% of world's supply is grown in the U.S. and amaranth doesn't contain vitamin B-12.
Post Covid there has been increase in "living for the present" as people realized they might be postponing experiences for a future that does not come.
Media stories imply there are a lot of vegans and vegetarians. A 2023 Gallop poll found just 4% of the US is vegetarian and 1% vegan, down from 6%/2% 18…
Cardiologist says nutrition science was wrong in the 1980s onward and increased heart disease risks.
Finally, a good article on B-12.
I am so old I remember nutritionists telling us to eat healthy high fiber breakfast cereals and eggs were terrible for us!
You need an instruction manual and spreadsheet to eat the planetary-diet - the diet that leads to nutrient deficiencies, per studies.
And the critical question - can we rely on what they say today?
Once upon a time, nutrition "science" said sugar consumption was ok and healthier than fats. Today sugar consumption is strongly viewed as not ok, and dangerous.
Plant-based fake milk sales are collapsing, just as Beyond Meat becomes beyond viable as a business.