February 14, 2011

Government scientists predictably attribute benefits of cutting white flour to magical properties of "roughage"


So the government commissions an observational study and they control for a few variables, but notice that it doesn't control for intake of white bread or sugar. Be assured that it's not the higher intake of fiber that is lengthening life in this study, it is the decrease in consumption of white bread. Fiber consumption almost certainly has a directly negative linear correlation to white bread consumption. Control for the intake of refined carbohydrates, and the benefit will vanish entirely. Fiber is overrated.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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