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I'm Leaning Towards 'Eat What You Want, Just Not Too Much Of It'
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It's so obvious that it's a cliché now: Today's medical advice is tomorrow's "never mind." Which raises the question, when do you pay attention to the latest dietary bulletin and when do you just throw up your hands and do what you want? Because the science seems to change every few years, and sometimes the result might be costing lives, like, as this article notes, when the American Academy of Pediatrics told parents to keep peanuts away from all babies for three years, which we now know a) might be wrong, and b) might have CAUSED allergies. Fats are good, until they're bad, then they're good again, only some fats are bad. Or not. Coffee was bad for you and could cause cancer, until they "discovered" that it's actually healthy for you. Is the problem the breathless reporting of every study as fact without any insight into whether the science supports the theory? (New York Times)
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