The Failure to Measure Dietary Intake Engendered a Fictional Discourse on Diet-Disease Relations

• Published in: Frontiers in nutrition (Lausanne) Vol. 5; p. 105
• Main Authors: Archer, Edward, Lavie, Carl J, Hill, James O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 13.11.2018
• Subjects: category error; diet; epidemiology; fallacy; implausible; Nutrition; epidemiology; category error; nutrition; fallacy; implausible; diet

Controversies regarding the putative health effects of dietary sugar, salt, fat, and cholesterol are not driven by legitimate differences in scientific inference from valid evidence, but by a fictional discourse on diet-disease relations driven by decades of deeply flawed and demonstrably misleading...