Video: Il Buonappetito: the truth, please, about what hurts. And that's good for you
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
These are confusing times. Very confused. Too confused. To the extent that few of us are scientists, we can only try to select the best information produced and transmitted by others.
But what if you find that this information is wrong? Manipulated? Instrumentalized?
For decades, studies have been published periodically that contradict each other.
Sometimes because to err is human and the analysis tools change. Sometimes - as in the recently documented case, which established that American sugar producers hid the results of research on the sucrose-pathology relationship - through willful misconduct.
Today, in a newspaper, I read that for decades we have demonized cheese for no reason. Just as we have demonized carbohydrates in the past. The chocolate.
Is coffee good or bad?
Are goji berries good for anything or nothing?
Do sausages cause cancer?
Does wine cause a heart attack or does it prevent it?
Is butter the absolute evil?
I realize that in a complex world it is difficult to have simple answers. But precisely because it is a complex world we have an extraordinary need: we do not have time to get to know everything we would like to know in depth.
So I would like a book that would answer my questions, as well as "The seven short lessons of physics" by Carlo Rovelli, which in 88 pages makes you understand something of the cosmos.
If someone in 88 simple pages will make me understand something about food, they will certainly have my ten euros.
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