I'd go even further and say we have little idea what a balanced diet is
apart from the obvious damaging shitty foods
We seem to all have highly varied gut biomes from individual to individual, and we're really in the infancy of our understanding. The majority of gut bacteria have not been identified, and those that have we have little idea if they're good or bad or what ratio is healthy. It may be what is healthy food for you is not as healthy for me, and vice versa,
As to the tea study, it was from spain's second best uni, and published in the globe's highest ranked internal medicine journal, so I wouldnt dismiss it out of hand as big tea propaganda. The study and the article had the appropriate caveats about drawing conclusions, but it's an interesting finding and worth further investigation
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 12:38,
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I think Michael Pollan's general advice "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" currently makes sense
I'd like to see the study repeated in a population which consumes more fruit and veg to see if tea consumption still makes a difference
An alternative explanation for the results reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine is that people ticked the tea box instead of the alcohol one and we all should drink more of the latter
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 13:02,
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not sure why you've bolded that, are you making an anal joke?
it is the highest ranked internal medicine journal, not Men's Health, so we should have some confidence the study was configured decently. If there was an issue in false self-reporting, I'd expect people to falsely claim they drank tea when they were pissheads, so it may be that tea-effect is even more pronounced than they found
If I had to speculate without reading the study to see if they adjusted for confounding factors, I'd say the effect of tea was limited and more of the effect was from correlation between tea-drinking and socio-economic status. Wealthy people have better health outcomes, especially with NHS becoming fucked. Tea used to be working class, but costa coffee, starbucks and lad culture is changing that.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 23:21,
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It's bolded to indicate I'm aware of the potential anal joke
Isn't that in the b3ta style guide?
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 1:11,
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ha, I thought our back and forth was becoming a bit dry
and you dont want that with anal
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 1:19,
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