SSP 126. Nutrition Research Lies and Deception

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♦ Nutrition Research Lies and Deception ♦

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Scott reacts to a recent podcast featuring a debate between plant-based diet advocate Dr. Joel Kahn, and alternative medicine practitioner Chris Kresser who promotes paleo and a line of supplements.

♦ “A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.” - C.H. Spurgeon ♦

• People want their preconceptions reinforced; they will often not challenge what they hear if what they hear agrees with the preconception. Few seldom fact-check what they hear.

• People love to hear good news about their bad habits.

• Scott references Ryan, of Happy Healthy Vegan (http://www.happyhealthyvegan.org/), who also reacted to the Rogan podcast with a series of YouTube videos of his own that debunk Kresser’s comments from the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBnt486V1E

• During the debate, what was represented was the exact opposite of what the referenced research says. Also, Kresser defends not having a study to support claims by replying “Lack of evidence isn’t evidence against.”

• To highlight the fallacy in the ‘lack of evidence” comment, Scott makes up a Rice Cake Diet as an example: it calls for eating four rice cakes a day and taking a line of supplements. He says there’s no science behind it but that “lack of evidence isn’t evidence against” it.

• It’s possible to mix a little bit of truth and a misrepresentation of research to make a point. This is true with fad diets.

• Scott immediately gets suspicious when he sees supplements being promoted along with a particular dietary approach.

• During Scott's work years ago in the supplement industry, he learned that single nutrients are identified as important, then isolated in a powder or pill then marketed as must-haves.

• In his book Whole, Dr. T. Colin Campbell discusses the benefits of the whole food instead of a single ingredient.

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