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Scurvy advice was also vast and divergent before it turned out it was all wrong and the problem was solved by a magic bullet. And so was our cholera advice. And advice about every single issue about which we were wrong. Advice divergence can as easily reflect our lack of knowledge as actual complexity of the problem.
Certainly. It's something you'd expect to appear either way.
However, if the relationship between akrasia and glucose were the same as the relationship between scurvy and vitamin C, you would expect that the divergent-but-successful self-help advice would all involve ways of (directly or indirectly) modifying glucose availability or depletion, in the same way that all the divergent-but-successful scurvy cures affected vitamin C consumption or depletion. (e.g. fresh meat, short trips, not using copper pots, etc.)
Most of advice on scurvy did not address scurvy in any way - they were just wrong. The kind which worked - like short trips - were extremely far removed from the real solution.
Likewise with cholera advice. It was just ridiculously wrong.