Resistant starch is awesome for your good bacteria as it helps them produce butyrate and other short chain fatty acids that are really good for your gut cells. Excellent video on the subject here: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/getting-starch-to-take-the-...
- Someone with 2 comments in total pointing to the same site
- A site called 'facts' showing a doctor selling books
- A site about nutrition focusing almost entirely on veganism
- A doctor who seems to push a vegan agenda and has a sort of cult following in the vegan community
- Cherry picking sources. It's quite obvious from reading some of the articles, and while I don't doubt veganism is good for you, it makes me doubt the site's credibility even more.
> Someone with 2 comments in total pointing to the same site
I have some more posts here, and also refer to the site a lot.
> A site called 'facts' showing a doctor selling books
I think the name of the site is a pun on the label that provides some info on the macros of many packaged food products. Afaik that label is titles "nutritionfacts" in the states.
The book he sells is great. Most (I guess all) of the info is also available for free on the website. And he donates the proceeds of the book. I'm also wary of doctors selling stuff (and pharma for that matter), but this guys seems not to be getting excessively rich on this. He seems intrinsically motivated.
> A site about nutrition focusing almost entirely on veganism
It focuses on evidence based nutrition. The doctor and his team claim to have evidence that a "whole plant food" diet is superior when it comes to preventing/reverting some diseases that are the leading killers/disablers in the western world.
> A doctor who seems to push a vegan agenda and has a sort of cult following in the vegan community
There's a list of prominent doctors that come to the same conclusions. Sure vegans feel at home with this narrative. But that should not make it less valuable information.
> Cherry picking sources. It's quite obvious from reading some of the articles, and while I don't doubt veganism is good for you, it makes me doubt the site's credibility even more.
That he (and others in this "nutrition against disease" movement) is cherry picking is often said. I believe it is hard to prove or disprove. And there is a lot of evidence that pharma is also guilty for cherry picking and manipulation. So it comes down to us having to make a choice ourselves. Who do you trust? Doctors/pharma selling chemicals without any consideration of diet, or doctors telling you to fix your diet to something "whole plant based" before trying chemicals? This is the main question for me at least.
I agree with your last point, it's hard to trust, which is why I err on the side of caution and try to avoid sites pushing one radical opinion over others. Paleo, vegan, atkins, there are tons of people, physicians included, insisting their research is the best.
So I think it's prudent to hold a more moderate stance on nutrition, an attitude of 'we don't know, let's find out' instead of 'I know best, trust me'.
Vegans almost always point to that site as some sort of gospel. Meanwhile, in the real world, the conclusions of the authors of many of the studies Greger cites don't line up with the conclusions he draws from them.
