{"id":4405,"date":"2023-11-15T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2023\/11\/15\/its-bad-for-your-health-or-is-it-good\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T16:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:32:26","slug":"its-bad-for-your-health-or-is-it-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2023\/11\/15\/its-bad-for-your-health-or-is-it-good\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s bad for your health. Or is it good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”]Have you ever heard that this or that food is carcinogenic?
\nProbably, you’ve heard it said about so many foods that you hardly pay any attention to it anymore, right?<\/p>\n

Well, in 2013 scientists J.D. Schoenfeld and J.P. Ioannidis published a study in “The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/strong>” which was titled: “Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Basically, they took, on a random basis, some recipes from a website and selected 50 ingredients from them.<\/p>\n

The first discovery?
\nForty<\/em> of these had at least one article dedicated to the subject.<\/p>\n

Of thirty-six<\/em>, there was at least one study that said they increased or decreased the risk of getting cancer (of 4 it is admitted that there was not enough data).<\/p>\n

For some of them, some studies even “demonstrated” both their positive and negative effects.<\/p>\n

Just to name the most popular: coffee, eggs, corn, lemon, milk, potatoes, cheese…<\/p>\n

So, can we assume that every article that criticizes or praises a given food should be taken as truthful?
\nOr as potential fake news<\/em>?
\nWe can’t believe in science?<\/p>\n

Not exactly.
\nHere we are dealing with numbers that are misunderstood and misused.<\/p>\n

As the authors explain: “the vast majority of these claims were based on weak statistical evidence”.
\nAnd also “There was no standardized, consistent selection of exposure contrasts for the reported risks”.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the foods for which the most studies have been found are the most popular ones, consumed daily. Which makes it a very difficult task to “isolate” them to find a correlation.<\/p>\n

Ah, one more thing: the authors make no mention of “quantities”, but simply identify the food and its degree of danger. If I may express my opinion, I don’t think this is a negligible detail.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: it is wrong to say that science is always right.
\nScience is an ever-evolving process that gradually brings us closer to the truth, through experiments and empirical methods, but what scientists consider correct at a given time can always be reversed in the future.<\/p>\n

So, listen to the science, but also stay updated!<\/p>\n

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