TRX Suspension Training: Food “Research” Conspiracy: Who Really Says its Healthy?…
The phrase “according to a recent study” bears a lot of weight in the minds of consumers. Certainly if research has been done proving that a food can make you better, faster or stronger, it must be true! A recent blog post from Precision Nutrition’s Helen Kollias, challenges this notion and encourages readers to consider where the funding for the research many trust blindly is coming from. In “Research, Big Food, and Science: Cooking Up a Conspiracy?” Kollias suggests that the powerful food companies that often fund these studies have a vested interest in seeing that their newest product comes out on top. Scientists find themselves in a difficult position- “scientific conflict of interest.” If their findings are not in favor of the company that funds them, they run the risk of loosing their grant money. Scientists sometimes even go so far as to participate in “ghostwriting.” This is when the company funding the research writes some or part of the researcher’s findings for them and then
