Much life advice I see in popular books and articles is just survivorship bias and food advice is selection and confounding. 
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Oh, gee. That is not what the study says at all. A good deal of "why is food advice always changing" isn't just that reporters don't know how to read results (and sometimes authors bury the lede and/or downplay the screaming confounding/selection issues).https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1106581581492297731 …
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I think I'm going to slightly alter my alternative career plan—opening a functional gym for normal people—and add a "latest study interpreted" consultation service. Most of the consultation will be: "yeah, ignore it till we actually know something", so easy!
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The comments are gold tho. “I just tried to fry half an egg. It’s a pretty messy job.”

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I try to follow Pollan's advice: "Eat food, mostly plants, not too much."
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Feels like an epistemological meltdown. 1 Folklore says X but science says Y 2 New research looks deeper, finds X was right after all 3 Giant meta study finds Y but high X blah blah genes blah blah funding so ... whatevs
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since we’re here, https://twitter.com/amitabhchandra2/status/1106936807529295874?s=21 …
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wait 'til you see the data the study was based on: "Each participant was asked a long list of what they’d eaten for the previous year or month. The data were collected during a single visit.The study had up to 31 years of follow up (median: 17.5 years)... " 1/2
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"...“We have one snapshot of what their eating pattern looked like,” Allen said. “But we think they represent an estimate of a person’s dietary intake. Still, people may have changed their diet, and we can’t account for that.” 2/2 https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/03/eggs-cholesterol/ …
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