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Nutrient Density and Other Stupid Magic Words


You keep using that word..

The type of person that acquired 100% of his knowledge, outside of a small niche relevant to his job or hobbies, from watching television and reading the headings in magazines & newspapers. If you look at epidemiology in the real world and anecdotes of internet diet culture, there exist healthy people on an extremely wide dietary spectrum. I think this is because scientists need to fence off one little area of nutrition that they specialize in and become an authority on, where they can generate infinite busywork, publish papers, dig deeper, do more research, hire PhD students and post docs, get grants for, and all that.

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