ngl I’m super glad that the ~6 months I spent as a low level nutrition researcher post grad school a decade and a half ago was enough to drive me out of the field completely, because trying to cope with this level of myopic hyperfocus and poor risk assessment in the current moment would 100% kill me
The researchers are being pretty transparent about the fact that this is a public relations strategy to get the government to do something about "ultra-processed food."
They keep making these statements of urgency, but it's not clear what they even want the government to do.
