Food Corps Can BUY Research Results - Marion Nestle PhD

Industry corrupts science. So says celebrated nutrition expert and best-selling author, Professor Marion Nestle. Prof. Nestle levels thoughtful criticism against food and beverage companies which, she says, use questionable science and marketing to push their own agendas. There is indeed something rotten in the state of dietary science. In this wide-ranging one-hour discussion, Professor Nestle discusses Research Contract Organizations, which openly offer their services to food companies to design and perform studies with virtually guaranteed results. The companies can then use such results for marketing purposes. Nutrition studies are very easy to rig, according to Nestle. Around 30% of researchers fail to report conflicts such as financial interests or money received. Prof. Nestle also discusses the NIH and USDA findings that antioxidants like carotenoids and the rest - have no proven health effects. Yet food companies and even nutrition professionals regularly make health assertions around antioxidants, where little or no evidence exists to support the claims. She discusses how studies of "one food" such as nuts or blueberries or spices or other single foods are "highly suspect," and that such reductionistic research should be scoffed at and not taken seriously. Only overall "dietary pattern" is relevant in the complex connection between food and longterm health, she says. No one food makes a diet healthful. Prof. Nestle lays out the current landscape of nutrition science, where corporate marketing regularly attempts to disguise itself as science.

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[AnaliliB]

This was a great interview! Thank you, Jeff!!
For about 5 years I was spending a lot of money on supplements - - without ever giving thought to changing my diet. Luckily there came a point where I had no more money in my budget for supplements. I did not want to get sick so I started researching what centennials did for health and longevity. I don't smoke, drink alcohol nor coffee, avoid sugary drinks, mostly cooked from scratch, and exercise about 3 times a week, but had a few health problems.
When I started exploring a WFPB diet I noticed that my joint pains, constipation, heartburn, migraine headaches, PMS, fatigue, even palpitations were gone...
I'm in better shape today than 5 or 10 years ago!
All for free!

[soubhikmukherjee]

How she exposes shady practices of several food companies is beyond remarkable! We desperately need more people like her in our current heavily corrupt society.

[AngieStonesPhD]

I thank you so much for this, and other videos. I remember many moons ago when I did my Ph.d. that I didn't get funding because I wasn't interested to prove something that my university research group supervisor was interested in. So, I had to pay for my own research. I wasn't aware about industry funding at that time and just thought it was a personal dislike to me. Of course, later, I realized different. I have never done any industry sponsored research and never would. But this limits the scope of research, of course as well as the promotion within the university. At least this is how it was in the UK while I was there. Terrible really and also very damaging for the population at large. I just don't know if governments pay attention. Really terrible.

[justcallmebookworm]

1:36 Yep, totally agree. Low-carbers like Chris Masterjohn like to talk about antioxidants protecting from heart disease, but I read an AHA review on the subject. The overall view of the studies, including RCTs, for antioxidants is that they are not protective of heart disease.

[marayoung]

Excellent interview! I want more of this!!!!

[utakmosir]

Better to spread this word out so more and more people become aware of this corruption.

[ProgressiveVegan]

Great interview and pre-interview summaries, Jeff. Video saved. Thanks.

[ooo]

Dear Vegsource, great interview, please continue to show us the truth and facts

[LIOMONK]

Great job Jeff!! You delve very deep in the research to do your videos and that means a lot of work. This was also a great interview! Loved it. Keep them coming. Thank you very much. Greetings from Portugal

[darlenedrivera]

Great video. Thank you so much Jeff, your videos have added so much value to some of my decisions regarding my health. Your channel is wonderful. From the bottom of my heart, God bless you.

[froesesp]

One irony is that the new York times best selling books are a big scam.

[carolwong]

Love this interview thanks. Can’t wait to get the book.

[gesund_mit_chris_IG]

Let's start potato and broccoli month😂

[gallectee]

Oh man am I going to read those books.

[alane]

Bought the book, looking forward to reading it.

[xana]

Great video. Excellent information. Veganism is the future. Thanks VegSource💪🙏👍👏

[justcallmebookworm]

29:08 " . . . different results with the same data . . . "

Yeah, I've been taking a closer look at the Siri-Tarino, Chowdhury, and Harcombe, meta-analyses and have noticed this. They very often look at the same observational studies and RCTs as the AHA Presidential Advisory on Dietary Fats, but yet come out with opposite results.

Marion Nestle is completely right--it very much seems to comes down to study design, interpretation of results, and how the questions are asked.

For study design, they generally tend to include much more heavily confounded observational studies than the AHA's Advisory. They also tend to use studies that have less adjustments for important confounders.

I'm a bit sad to say that for the RCTs, all of the major studies appear to be heavily confounded, so neither side should be analyzing them.

On interpretation, in Siri-Tarino's reply to Scarborough, et al, she points to a pooled analysis and says that they agree with her that substituting carbs for saturated fat doesn't seem to reduce heart disease risk. She doesn't mention that this very same pooled analysis also reported, as their main conclusion, that substituting saturated fat with omega-6 PUFAs did decrease the risk.

The AHA Advisory also said that the the carbs being substituted for in her study were either undefined or refined sugar. She doesn't mention this in her reply, either.

[ruthruthless]

Anti oxidants don't matter? That smells a bit of "good news about bad habits" excuse to not have to eat greens. I personally have problems with my folate blood results unless I eat lots of raw vegetables and I often have trouble keeping up with the amount required to raise the folate in my blood tests, including a hefty amount of greens. Does the folate number in my blood tests not matter either?

But I agree, there is no one food that helps, but the overall dietary pattern. That's why I didn't say any specific plant but I do seem to have trouble with folate if I don't have a high amount of raw vegetables, especially greens help.

My doctors keep telling me to take folate and I refuse and try to get it with food and sometimes I manage to raise it but I am also battling with a tendency to bloat which requires me to eat smaller volumes of food and that often means taking the large amounts of the raw veggies out first since I need to also get enough calories and I am always hovering a bit above and below underweight.

I am trying to get help for my possible gut issues but I just saw the gastroentorologist after waiting 4-5 months for my appointment and she said "it's because you're vegan and you get too much fiber" and I told her but when I eat processed food that has less fiber it gets worse, so how does that work? She had no alternate theory. Lovely advice from the so called "experts".

[chrnb]

Title should be: "food corps buys 80% of research" or whatever the percentage is.

[terryh.]

Question for you, what about flaxseeds and chia seeds? Dr greger says they are essential to get our omega 3s on a vegan diet. Is that a bunch of baloney too? Should I not worry about micro nutrients at all?