Like nutrition studies, since most of them are based on self reporting, which is usually made up or inaccurate.
To this day, scientist know that self-reported food intake in fantasy, but nutrition studies still almost all are self-reported food intake.
They know it's false, but they keep doing those studies anyway.
You can warn beforehand so-called ''diet-resistant'' fat people that they must report acurately and that their food intake will be mesured independently too. And they only report half of what they eat in their food diary.
I get why they still do it because they want money for a study and you can’t keep people in a lab for months on end or anything. The more you know about most studies the less you’ll trust them all though. The Covid shot studies are the funniest because there’s obviously no long term data on any of them since they’ve only existed for half a second. They’ll still argue they’re safe though based on this and that. Then data mounts that says for plenty of people they’re not, probably even as many people as Covid is fatal for.
There’s also the element of human stupidity that comes into nutrition studies because if you ask the average person what they ate, they usually discount half of it because they either forgot because it was a ‘quick snack’, or because they’re going about their day and thinking about other things and eating mindlessly. They’re also not used to talking about food in the way a nutrition study would require. Ask the average person how they eat and you’ll usually get vague things like ‘I eat organic’ or ‘I eat pretty well I think’, the latter based on them having an obese friend that eats 5 pies a day and them only eating 2.
There is also straight-up denial and lying because it just cannot possibly be a self-inflicted problem. Muh magic genetics.
I was helping a parent fill-out their questionaire for their T2 diabetes treatment.
On the question about weekly sugary drinks concumption, they write 5. I correct them, they drink 24 per week.
They say it's impossible they drink so much.
Well let's see. The soda crate contains 24 sodas. They drink them all every single week. The sodas aren't vanishing in a black hole.
The reply : "well maaaaby 10" and they write 10.
Even after slapping them in the face with reality, they insisted on a number off by a factor 2.5.
You can be sure the next questionnaire without hand-holding, they will wrote down 5. Because they thought about drinking less of it without actually changing anything.
You can't help people in this sort of mindset, but you sure as Hell shouldn't be lectured by "Experts" in Fat Studies about how "bodies all work differently" when confronted with obvious falsehoods.
I run a business related to this and have to deal with things like that too. I always have people take pictures of everything they eat and drink if it comes up for medical documentation and half the people aren’t willing to do it, with the other half having it come back as completely unlike they described. They’re the worst with liquids because they think of them as water, even if it’s 3-4 Starbucks shakes a day. Same with fountain drinks.
I’ve had people show up with a Starbucks cup and fountain drink simultaneously in hand and when we document their sugar intake they say they avoid sugar. Then you do the math and it’s always an almost entirely glucose based diet. A lot of girls live on danishes and lattes and pie and alcohol.
Alcohol’s another hard one. Most people in big cities are alcoholics and think they’re not because they have more-alcoholic friends.
To this day, scientist know that self-reported food intake in fantasy, but nutrition studies still almost all are self-reported food intake.
They know it's false, but they keep doing those studies anyway.
You can warn beforehand so-called ''diet-resistant'' fat people that they must report acurately and that their food intake will be mesured independently too. And they only report half of what they eat in their food diary.
I get why they still do it because they want money for a study and you can’t keep people in a lab for months on end or anything. The more you know about most studies the less you’ll trust them all though. The Covid shot studies are the funniest because there’s obviously no long term data on any of them since they’ve only existed for half a second. They’ll still argue they’re safe though based on this and that. Then data mounts that says for plenty of people they’re not, probably even as many people as Covid is fatal for.
There’s also the element of human stupidity that comes into nutrition studies because if you ask the average person what they ate, they usually discount half of it because they either forgot because it was a ‘quick snack’, or because they’re going about their day and thinking about other things and eating mindlessly. They’re also not used to talking about food in the way a nutrition study would require. Ask the average person how they eat and you’ll usually get vague things like ‘I eat organic’ or ‘I eat pretty well I think’, the latter based on them having an obese friend that eats 5 pies a day and them only eating 2.
There is also straight-up denial and lying because it just cannot possibly be a self-inflicted problem. Muh magic genetics.
I was helping a parent fill-out their questionaire for their T2 diabetes treatment.
On the question about weekly sugary drinks concumption, they write 5. I correct them, they drink 24 per week.
They say it's impossible they drink so much.
Well let's see. The soda crate contains 24 sodas. They drink them all every single week. The sodas aren't vanishing in a black hole.
The reply : "well maaaaby 10" and they write 10.
Even after slapping them in the face with reality, they insisted on a number off by a factor 2.5.
You can be sure the next questionnaire without hand-holding, they will wrote down 5. Because they thought about drinking less of it without actually changing anything.
You can't help people in this sort of mindset, but you sure as Hell shouldn't be lectured by "Experts" in Fat Studies about how "bodies all work differently" when confronted with obvious falsehoods.
I run a business related to this and have to deal with things like that too. I always have people take pictures of everything they eat and drink if it comes up for medical documentation and half the people aren’t willing to do it, with the other half having it come back as completely unlike they described. They’re the worst with liquids because they think of them as water, even if it’s 3-4 Starbucks shakes a day. Same with fountain drinks.
I’ve had people show up with a Starbucks cup and fountain drink simultaneously in hand and when we document their sugar intake they say they avoid sugar. Then you do the math and it’s always an almost entirely glucose based diet. A lot of girls live on danishes and lattes and pie and alcohol.
Alcohol’s another hard one. Most people in big cities are alcoholics and think they’re not because they have more-alcoholic friends.