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In a conversation with psychologist Paul Bloom, Sam Harris said:
“I have this feeling that we don’t understand human health and nutrition enough, the fact that there's any controversy at all about what human beings should eat so as to be healthy, I find to be an incredible scientific embarrassment, the fact that you have debates about carbs and protein and fat consummated by good faith by experts and there is still some uncertainty, is an amazing state of our current situation in science.”
Sam sounds like Ray Peat there:
"Nutrition is one of the most important sciences, and should certainly be as prestigious and well financed as astrophysics and nuclear physics, but while people say “it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure that out,” no one says “it doesn’t take a nutritionist to understand that.” Partly, that’s because medicine treated scientific nutrition as an illegitimate step-child, and refused throughout the 20th century to recognize that it is a central part of scientific health care." - RP
A couple other good Peat quotes, notice the word “hardly:”
“Nutritional research has hardly begun to investigate the optimal ratios of minerals, fats, amino acids, and other things in foods, and how they interact with the natural toxicants, anti-nutrients, and hormone disrupters in many organisms used for food.” - RP
“For fifty years, the mass media have been making the public think about the fats in their diet, filling the culture with clichés about bad saturated animal fats that raise cholesterol, or lately the trans-fats in margarine, and images of arteries clogged by bad fats. The public instruction about the fats we should eat resembles the owner's manual for a car, that tells you what kind of motor oil and fuel and coolant to use; they are telling us that they know how our body works, and that they know what it needs. But now, even after the human genome has supposedly been partly "decoded," the biological functions of the fats have hardly begun to be investigated.” - RP
“The amino acids in proteins have been defined as “essential” on the basis of their contribution to growth, ignoring their role in producing long life, good brain development, and good health. The amino acid and protein requirements during aging have hardly been studied, except in rats, whose short life-span makes such studies fairly easy. The few studies that have been done indicate that the requirements for tryptophan and cysteine become very low in adulthood.” - RP
From:
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-dark-side
at 1:24:05
“I have this feeling that we don’t understand human health and nutrition enough, the fact that there's any controversy at all about what human beings should eat so as to be healthy, I find to be an incredible scientific embarrassment, the fact that you have debates about carbs and protein and fat consummated by good faith by experts and there is still some uncertainty, is an amazing state of our current situation in science.”
Sam sounds like Ray Peat there:
"Nutrition is one of the most important sciences, and should certainly be as prestigious and well financed as astrophysics and nuclear physics, but while people say “it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure that out,” no one says “it doesn’t take a nutritionist to understand that.” Partly, that’s because medicine treated scientific nutrition as an illegitimate step-child, and refused throughout the 20th century to recognize that it is a central part of scientific health care." - RP
A couple other good Peat quotes, notice the word “hardly:”
“Nutritional research has hardly begun to investigate the optimal ratios of minerals, fats, amino acids, and other things in foods, and how they interact with the natural toxicants, anti-nutrients, and hormone disrupters in many organisms used for food.” - RP
“For fifty years, the mass media have been making the public think about the fats in their diet, filling the culture with clichés about bad saturated animal fats that raise cholesterol, or lately the trans-fats in margarine, and images of arteries clogged by bad fats. The public instruction about the fats we should eat resembles the owner's manual for a car, that tells you what kind of motor oil and fuel and coolant to use; they are telling us that they know how our body works, and that they know what it needs. But now, even after the human genome has supposedly been partly "decoded," the biological functions of the fats have hardly begun to be investigated.” - RP
“The amino acids in proteins have been defined as “essential” on the basis of their contribution to growth, ignoring their role in producing long life, good brain development, and good health. The amino acid and protein requirements during aging have hardly been studied, except in rats, whose short life-span makes such studies fairly easy. The few studies that have been done indicate that the requirements for tryptophan and cysteine become very low in adulthood.” - RP
From:
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-dark-side
at 1:24:05
