Just seen news of a Cambridge University report which made BBC headlines. If you eat 2 slices of ham every day for 10 years, your chances of developing diabetes increases by 15%. I looked up the risk of diabetes for normal healthy individuals and it is 1 in 100. So for the cohort of imaginary people who eat 15kg of ham every year for 10 years the risk means 1.15 of that cohort in every 100 would likel develop diabetes.
Reinforces the misguided ides of many healthy eaters that you can’t consume too much of food, that in minute doses, promotes good health and can’t take too little of anything that taken in massive doses is harmful.
There was the publicised case of a 41 year-old health fanatic who consumed 8 pints of carrot juice a day over 10 days and died of vitamin A poisoning. On the same grounds that consumers seek a variety of free-from food, why don’t we have carrot-free imitation carrots?
Also why don’t we have the much more useful research into how much carrot juice you need to consume over a few months before it kills you rather than how much ham over ten years can give you diabetes?
The reason is, there isn't a commercial interest, like manufacturers of imitation ham, that would be served by funding it.
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As for carrots, you can easily find online how many carrots you need to eat before the toxicity levels are too high.
Eating that may or may not be good for you, but I don’t think it is good for the animal.
Don’t watch Charlton!
The real issue is academics justifying their existence by conducting pointless research at the behest of commercial interests to influence consumer choice based on statistically insignificant findings.
So you get "Eating food kills you" say scientists;100% of food eaters die" when the actual research is often telling a different and more nuanced and factual tale.
Although some research is poorly done more often it is poorly reported.