Shhh... Don't show it to my mother ! If she sees this, my whole family is going to be on a regimen of hot peppers until she reads something else :)
My mother is the kind who changes the whole family's diet when she reads some sufficiently convincing diet book or study.
At one point we ate dissociated food. At another point it was blood type food.
At another point it was raw roots or something.
I love my mother and she's an excelent cook, and she never forced us to eat according to the books, but she would be very insistent, because there were studies that showed ...
Most of the time the results of those studies were disproved, either by another experiment or by some technical issue with the way the study was conducted.
Just like there were studies that smoking is actually good for you and studies that showed that children who drink sugar soda from an early age are heathier.
The point I'm trying to make is that these studies are not just 'informative', they have real consequences on real families. There are families out there who will start eating hot food just because they've read this study.
She followed every nutritional fad that appeared on the table. I can remember nothing but horrors for dinner for the best part of 10 years of my life. She was scared of eating things in case it affected mortality in some way. In fact I ended up getting quite ill on occasion, now to what I know was simply malnutrition. This affected my schooling, my physical condition and my mental health at the time. The latter was quite devastating for a bit to be honest.
It wasn't until I got a shit job stacking shelves in a supermarket and moved out that I started eating properly and literally after a month I felt like a different person.
Now the cruel result; she had a heart attack and a stroke a couple of years ago due to what they reckon is 60 years of poor dieting.
My mother is the kind who changes the whole family's diet when she reads some sufficiently convincing diet book or study. At one point we ate dissociated food. At another point it was blood type food. At another point it was raw roots or something. I love my mother and she's an excelent cook, and she never forced us to eat according to the books, but she would be very insistent, because there were studies that showed ...
Most of the time the results of those studies were disproved, either by another experiment or by some technical issue with the way the study was conducted.
Just like there were studies that smoking is actually good for you and studies that showed that children who drink sugar soda from an early age are heathier.
The point I'm trying to make is that these studies are not just 'informative', they have real consequences on real families. There are families out there who will start eating hot food just because they've read this study.
I hope they don't torture themselves for nothing.