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Dietary science is dominated by skinny, obsessive-compulsive middle-class women with eating disorders who want to share their pathological disgust of food with others. As someone who has ended up in the field for very different reasons, I can't imagine an area of science more strongly dominated by a cargo cult-level scientism (except for maybe psychology…). It's like being taught portraiture by the colour-blind; they seemingly have no idea how strongly their understanding is coloured by their class values and pathological tendencies.

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vitamin A is essential, yet to much is highly toxic (thats why you don't eat polar bear liver, should it ever be offered to you)in other words, the human body has a limited capacity to adjust; to much oxygen is bad, to little is bad, etc etc

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