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Comment author: RichardKennaway 08 January 2014 09:43:16AM 0 points [-]

If the micronutrient hypothesis were correct, surely someone would have noticed by now that if you eat a serving of miracle foods X and Y every day, then the rest of the day you can eat whatever you want in the amounts you want and get and stay thin. Especially since people have been searching for foods like this for years with little success.

There was a wave of spam some years back for a type of bread that supposedly drastically reduced hunger. So if the spam is to be believed... which of course it isn't. But I'm curious to know if anyone has tried it.

Comment author: brazil84 08 January 2014 10:25:09AM 0 points [-]

There was a wave of spam some years back for a type of bread that supposedly drastically reduced hunger. So if the spam is to be believed... which of course it isn't.

Lol, of course not. People have been chasing the chimera of nutritionism for decades and perhaps more. i.e. the idea that if you simply add or subtract some component to or from your diet, you can then eat tasty food ad libitum and get and stay thin. Taubes' theory is just another example of nutritionism. The micronutrient hypothesis is another example.