The Biggest Issue in World Nutrition - Protein Deficiency

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Silya says researchers are developing narratives that may or may not actually fit the data in front of them. She thinks a huge part of it is just bias, like confirmation bias and other forms of bias. Silya: You can't talk about a deficiency of protein if people are not eating enough of anything to uses.

How Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a series of nutritional misconceptions we're still living with today.

Special thanks to John Nott for helping us out with this episode! Here's his papers on the history of protein and the British Empire.

Support us:

Links!