Anthropology 2238A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Monosaccharide, Cholesterol, Inverse Relation
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Nagler (2014) paper (answer questions below from reading) Now people are sating we were wrong about how bad fat is Same goes for heat disease and cancer; do what i eat/drink really affect whether ill. To date, they"re over 700 names diets. The word diet yields over 100 million results in google. On amazon, you can find over 24,000 books on nutrition. A lot of money in the nutrition industry: 2013; estimated at 60. 5 billion dollars, all about marketing, some tailored for weight loss, disease prevention/cure, healthier lifestyle overall, muscle gain, improve mind/energy/youthfulness/fertility, etc. Confusion not entirely the fault of the weight loss or food industries. Randomized traits?: food surveys and diaries, differences between individuals, diversity of food, ex. varying nutritional content of an apple species, ripeness, local vs non-local, whole or pre-sliced, etc. The lancet study: prospective urban rural epidemiology (pure - journal), epidemiological cohort study of 134,335 35-70 year-olds from 2003-