Paul Saladino· MD
this is perpetually frustrating for me that in nutrition science people often conflate reductionist experiments with foods or food components that are not done in a whole food matrix with foods that occur in a whole food matrix
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
this is perpetually frustrating for me that in nutrition science people often conflate reductionist experiments with foods or food components that are not done in a whole food matrix with foods that occur in a whole food matrix
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then we have a burgeoningly complex interesting world of nutrition in which reductionism is death and reductionism will mislead us
we must not conflate research done on pure fructose on processed sugars especially high fructose corn syrup with whole food sources of carbohydrates like fruit or like honey