The Inappropriate Use of the Drug Trial Paradigm in Nutrition Research

The industry funded sugar paper concluding that the dietary guidelines telling people to cut down aren't trustworthy because they're based on such quote-unquote low quality evidence is an example of the inappropriate use of the drug trial paradigm in nutrition research. There are other tools like, for example, Nutrigrade, a scoring system specifically designed to assess and judge the level of evidence in nutritionResearch. Public health officials have to work with the best available balance of evidence there is.