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paleotn

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12. OK...
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 10:26 AM
Aug 2019

From the author's first cited source....

Other than a chart of FDA recommended daily intake of certain vitamins and minerals, the actual analysis is done by....

The latest analysis of the official U.S. Food Composition tables conducted by Planetary Health, Inc., the parent organization of
Amberwaves
...based on some FDA nutritional database that's not referenced directly. OK. How was the research done and who did it? Are their findings replicated by other researchers? Is Planetary Health, Inc. or Amberwaves reputable? Never heard of them so I don't know. What do they do? Have they published any of this in peer reviewed publications? In an environment of publish or perish, I expect academics to be all over this, but I'm just not seeing it.

Not that the author doesn't make some valid points. They most certainly do, but don't take those points and go off the deep end.

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