Hot take: nutritional epidemiology is often a waste of time Hotter take: nutrition is crazy complex, nutritional epidemiology mirrors this fact Hottest take: the biggest issue with nutritional epidemiology is in interpretation, the studies are mostly pretty good
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Replying to @GidMK
Scorching hot take: humans are facultative carnivores.
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Replying to @Travis_Statham
If nothing else is true about humanity, it's that we are an unbelievably adaptable species
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Replying to @GidMK
Yes that's a fancy way of saying "plants are famine food"
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Replying to @Travis_Statham
Nope, it's a fancy way of saying "people can eat an astonishing range of stuff and not die"
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Replying to @GidMK
Yes we call that an omnivore. But you’re talking about optimal nutrition no? And that’s what facultative carnivore means.
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Oh, I'd never heard that use of facultative before. The definition I'm used to is closer to optional Anyway, 'optimal nutrition' is, thus far, a nebulous term, but even so I've never seen good evidence that supports that claim
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