There’s no conspiracy against healthy eating
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There’s no conspiracy against healthy eating
There's been a LOT about why RFK Jr is a terrible pick, but I want to focus on something that is very concerning to me, but no one seems to be mentioning.
He appeals to a widespread, common-sense idea that the problem with our food is that it has "lots of artificial ingredients". Get the artificial ingredients out — no... See more
Alan Levinovitzx.comThis is misleading at best. At its worst, it’s plainly wrong: There is no definitive evidence that eating plant-based meat leads to better health outcomes. And there’s no definitive evidence that it doesn’t.
Asterisk Magazine Issue 02 Food
(‘For what else could possibly explain their health problems but their personal failings?’, the critic Evgeny Morozov asks sardonically. ‘It’s certainly not the power of food companies or class-based differences or various political and economic injustices.’) If refusing a nudge carries a financial or other penalty, how free does the nudged choice
... See moreWe Are More Rational Than Those Who Nudge Us – Steven Poole – Aeon
Most public health campaigns aimed at changing diets are based on the idea that, once we are made to see that certain foods and behaviors are unhealthy, we will give them up. The evidence, however, shows that change in diet does not work like this.