{"id":685,"date":"2018-04-15T06:39:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=685"},"modified":"2018-04-15T06:39:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T06:39:46","slug":"research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/15\/research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A notable point from the Michael Pollan reading was the emphasis on the origins of popular thought on nutrition throughout history; the shift from protein to carbohydrates as America\u2019s \u00fcber nutrient was noted as being catalyzed by John Harvey Kellogg, whose name coincidentally shows up in many home\u2019s pantry to this day on cereal of all sorts (Pollan 30). This seems to be a steady undercurrent throughout the reading \u2013 those advancing nutritionism and other popular \u201cadvancements\u201d seem to be personally benefitted by the foods they portray as the new great thing. It seems, based off this, to coincide with his descriptions later of the nutrition scientists \u2013 not <em>necessarily<\/em> intentionally doing wrong, but having subtle biases that color their results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/clotho98\/6923384430\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-765 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6923384430_f31069855e_k-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6923384430_f31069855e_k-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6923384430_f31069855e_k-768x1074.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6923384430_f31069855e_k-733x1024.jpg 733w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6923384430_f31069855e_k-624x872.jpg 624w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/6923384430_f31069855e_k.jpg 1465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Food companies also regularly fund studies relating to the health effects of their products \u2013 and with that funding comes the ability to suppress any embarrassing results, and finagle other studies into a form such that they find benefits to their products. These studies can be used to advertise the product as healthy\u2122, with what at first appears to be reasonable backing. Further, the studies can be used in lobbying efforts \u2013 they pose as the perfect cover to enact laws protecting the companies products, as they can be used to claim that votes that benefit the companies<em> really <\/em>serve to protect the politician\u2019s constituents. This can be clearly seen in research on obesity; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/17\/494360187\/industry-influence-in-nutrition-research\">a study found that between<\/a> 2010 and 2015 Coca-Cola funded research that suggested a focus on exercise, rather than diet, to combat weight gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notable point from the Michael Pollan reading was the emphasis on the origins of popular thought on nutrition throughout history; the shift from protein to carbohydrates as America\u2019s \u00fcber nutrient was noted as being catalyzed by John Harvey Kellogg, whose name coincidentally shows up in many home\u2019s pantry to this day on cereal of all sorts (Pollan 30). This&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/15\/research-funding\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrialized-food","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}