{"id":3441,"date":"2016-01-12T19:33:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2016-01-12T19:33:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:33:56","slug":"you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition-fivethirtyeight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition-fivethirtyeight\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Trust What You Read About Nutrition | FiveThirtyEight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-12-at-2.33.05-PM.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3442\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-12-at-2.33.05-PM.png?resize=300%2C278&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-12 at 2.33.05 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[FiveThirtyEight is generally a pretty good source for statistical analysis, although personally, when I read articles like this I increasingly feel like, &#8220;well, yes, this is why frequentist approaches to experimental significance are inherently flawed&#8230;&#8221; -egg]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/health.gov\/dietaryguidelines\/committee\/\">U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee<\/a> recently released its <a href=\"http:\/\/health.gov\/dietaryguidelines\/2015-scientific-report\/\">latest guidelines<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/health.gov\/dietaryguidelines\/2015-scientific-report\/02-executive-summary.asp\">define a healthy diet<\/a> as one that emphasizes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low- or nonfat dairy products, seafood, legumes and nuts while reducing red and processed meat, refined grains, and sugary foods and beverages.<a class=\"footnote-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition\/?ex_cid=story-facebook#fn-1\" data-expandable=\"entry-footnotes\" data-footnote-id=\"1\"><sup id=\"ss-1\">1<\/sup><\/a> Some cardiologists recommend a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/nutrition-and-healthy-eating\/in-depth\/mediterranean-diet\/art-20047801\">Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil<\/a>, the American Diabetes Association gives the nod to both<a href=\"http:\/\/care.diabetesjournals.org\/content\/31\/Supplement_1\/S3.full\">low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcrm.org\/health\/diets\">Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine promotes a vegetarian diet<\/a>. Ask a hard-bodied CrossFit aficionado, and she may champion a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/the-paleo-diet-should-you-eat-like-a-caveman\/2015\/01\/12\/4a985046-9678-11e4-8005-1924ede3e54a_story.html\">\u201cPaleo\u201d diet<\/a> based on foods our Paleolithic ancestors (supposedly) ate. My colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/madden-nfl-virtual-ratings\/\">Walt Hickey<\/a> swears by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/keto\/comments\/3og8rr\/welcome_to_keto_heres_what_you_need_to_get_you\/\">keto diet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s right? It\u2019s hard to say. When it comes to nutrition, everyone has an opinion. What no one has is an airtight case. The problem begins with a lack of consensus on what makes a diet healthy. Is the aim to make you slender? To build muscles? To keep your bones strong? Or to prevent heart attacks or cancer or keep dementia at bay? Whatever you\u2019re worried about, there\u2019s no shortage of diets or foods purported to help you. Linking dietary habits and individual foods to health factors is easy \u2014 ridiculously so \u2014 as you\u2019ll soon see from the little experiment we conducted.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #404040; line-height: 1.6;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition\/\">You Can\u2019t Trust What You Read About Nutrition | FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[FiveThirtyEight is generally a pretty good source for statistical analysis, although personally, when I read articles like this I increasingly feel like, &#8220;well, yes, this is why frequentist approaches to experimental significance are inherently flawed&#8230;&#8221; -egg] The U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recently released its latest guidelines, which define a healthy diet as one that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}