The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I think the other reason that epidemiology is challenging here and this is uh again not not unique to epidemiology. This is a a common phenomenon in all nutrition research is it is difficult to disentangle the potential impacts of fiber itself from the potential impacts of things that traffic with fiber.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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