{"id":34591,"date":"2017-10-26T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34591"},"modified":"2017-10-15T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T12:19:00","slug":"qotd-the-nutrition-science-is-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/qotd-the-nutrition-science-is-settled\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The nutrition science is settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nutrition science is, in general, a bottomless stew of politics, guesswork, bogus data and poor statistical practice. I would call it \u201cunsavoury\u201d if that weren\u2019t such an inexcusable pun in this context. Anyone who has read the newspaper for 10 or 20 years, watching the endless tide of good-for-you\/bad-for-you roll in and out, must know this instinctively.<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/colby-cosh-on-msg-behind-the-harmless-food-enhancer-everyone-still-dreads\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;MSG: The harmless food enhancer everyone still dreads&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2016-04-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition science is, in general, a bottomless stew of politics, guesswork, bogus data and poor statistical practice. I would call it \u201cunsavoury\u201d if that weren\u2019t such an inexcusable pun in this context. Anyone who has read the newspaper for 10 or 20 years, watching the endless tide of good-for-you\/bad-for-you roll in and out, must know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[74,66,41,16],"tags":[39,290],"class_list":["post-34591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-science","tag-junkscience","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8ZV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34592,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34591\/revisions\/34592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}