From the "trust the science" department.

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https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nutrit/nuac086/6827512

This study claims honey lowers fasting glucose, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and more. Of course if you zoom in just a little bit it says "(low certainty)" or "(low certainty of evidence)" for each of these claims. Then you scroll down to learn who funded the researchers. A sampling:

  • The International Life Sciences Institute (funded by e.g. BASF, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, McDonald’s, Monsanto, Syngenta and Pepsi)
  • The National Honey Board
  • The International Nut and Dried Fruit Council Foundation
  • The National Dried Fruit Trade Association
  • The Quaker Oats Center of Excellence

... it goes on like this.

The way you usually produce this kind of garbage is to measure 200 things. 195 of them will fail to support your premise, or directly support the opposite claim. But 5 of them, if you squint and hold your mouth just so, will make for great headline claims. The rest go in the trash. "Science."



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