Is it an experiment on our health or is it safe....
Demonstrating causality
When analysing nutrition, you can go as deep as you want and there are complete courses available that will take you several years of schooling. I have been immersing myself in nutrition for at least 20 years and in this quest I have found out mainly that you can do not make nutrition more difficult than necessary.
In the field of science on nutrition, I have especially noticed how difficult it is to prove causality. That is why there is constant advancing knowledge, as one study after another falls through. As a result, people are confused.
Our health at risk?
In nature, we should not have to think so much about our nutrition at all, but could trust our instincts. Our instinct has been replaced by health claims and questionable labels we stare in despair at on packaging. Especially as figures of obesity, disease, lack of vitality and ailments show a negative scenario, consumer confidence has sunk to zero. Just at a time like this, a logical story and common sense is crucial.
Do we need a Nutrition Centre and science in nature? I thought not. In a zoo, animals are most likely to be healthy if you mimic the natural situation as much as possible in all areas, including nutrition. It makes sense to give a doctor fish seaweed and a lion meat. If we give the doctor fish flake food and the lion Whiskas, we are conducting an experiment whose long-term outcome we do not know very well.
Back to basics
Actually, much of the supermarket is a experiment with our health. However, suppliers still get away with it because causal links cannot be traced directly to the substances in the products. This is because the onset of obesity, ailments and diseases is always a sum of all kinds of influences. Ultimately, any experiment in the form of an e-number, process method, and food sources that do not naturally suit us can be the straw that breaks the camel's back. So for me, the conclusion is very simple:
If you walk into a cul-de-sac, I don't just keep walking until I hit the wall, I turn around. The same applies to nutrition in my opinion. Back to basics and experimenting as little as possible with our health is the most logical way for me, and this has long proven itself with me in practice and with many readers of the hormone factor series. Is it a miracle? No, it is simple and logical.
Ir. Ralph Moorman
English 
Dutch 