We know that certain foods, particularly animal products, especially cheaper animal products, lead to cancers, heart disease, etc.
It’s very very difficult to get obese on a well balanced healthy diet composed of mostly vegetables.
But yet again we have yet another study uselessly pointing out a correlation which is unhelpful for actually solving public health issues
What do you mean? This is very helpful. It says that if you want to reduce cancer incidence, you should work to decrease obesity. If we only did science that produced direct results that require zero political action to be effective, no science would get done.
Besides, its not as if it’s a giant mystery what causes the obesity epidemic, it’s just that undoing that would mean some massive regulation in the food industry, changes to zoning, increases in public funding and a dozen other areas, and other things that aren’t a mystery, but are very politically unpopular.
continues to encourage the passing of the blame to those in society who have the least responsibility for their situation.
The paper absolutely does not say “Don’t want cancer? Don’t be a fatty!”. The article does do, but that’s not the fault of the researchers.
It’s very very difficult to get obese on a well balanced healthy diet composed of mostly vegetables.
What do you mean? This is very helpful. It says that if you want to reduce cancer incidence, you should work to decrease obesity. If we only did science that produced direct results that require zero political action to be effective, no science would get done.
Besides, its not as if it’s a giant mystery what causes the obesity epidemic, it’s just that undoing that would mean some massive regulation in the food industry, changes to zoning, increases in public funding and a dozen other areas, and other things that aren’t a mystery, but are very politically unpopular.
The paper absolutely does not say “Don’t want cancer? Don’t be a fatty!”. The article does do, but that’s not the fault of the researchers.