Probiotics Are Useless, GMOs Are Fine, and Gluten Is Necessary

[Nevernose]

48. The vast majority of "nutrition studies" are garbage

You want me to find fifty studies finding that salt is the devil? Can do. Want fifty more showing that salt is harmless? No problem.

In my limited time on this planet, I've learned one key fact: it's all bullshit (I learned this from George Carlin).

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's healthy and what's not, and even with the best possible nutrition, you're still going to die. We are all going to die. We are all going to die no matter how much kale we stir fry in avocado oil and no matter how many vitamins and supplements we take. We're probably going to be scared shitless in the moments immediately leading up to our demise -- with the occasional precognitive fear for decades before our death -- and the best we can reasonably hope for is to make it to the middle of our seventh decade and still be moderately mobile.

"Nutrition," for most of us in the well-nourished Western world, is just 21st century folk magic.

(And in the spirit of honesty, I should mention that I take vitamins and supplements daily, some of which because I'm supposed to and others of which because I'm a paranoid loon, and I also exercise at least an hour a day, six days a week).