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Thing that you thought was bad is good and thing that you thought was good is bad, that's 80% of nutritional click-bait. One note summaries of studies aren't worth reading and shouldn't shape your choices. Whatever rough understanding most people have of healthy vs unhealthy is close enough. We don't need to pretend we're all nutritional scientists attempting olympic athlete level nutritional perfection.

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This is because nearly 100% of nutritional education effort is directed at children, which is stupid because children eat what their parents cook. Anyways, that has left a gaping hole for lifestyle blogs to fill with their pseudo-science.

When I was getting my Nutrition degree, I was involved in building a community website to help single fathers learn to cook for their kids. When we applied for the funding, we were one of three applications in the adult education section, versus hundreds in the child education category.

This is a fascinating observation about the funding of nutrition education, thank you for sharing it.

What do you think are the reasons most education efforts are spent on children? It seems to mirror the fact that children spend a significant part of their time on education, while adult education is ad-hoc and self-directed. Are there other factors that you can see from inside the field?

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