Don’t take every food study at face value
, the study was still “unable to resolve a key question: Does consuming drinks sweetened with aspartame or saccharin harm your health? Or could it be that people who drink lots of Diet Snapple or Sprite Zero lead a more unhealthy lifestyle to begin with?” For instance, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researcher Vasanti S. Malik — who authored
that failed to confirm a conclusive link between artificial sweeteners and increased mortality in women — told the, it’s entirely feasible that diet soda drinkers could be using their consumption of Diet Coke to rationalize an indulgence in less healthy foods. In other words, there’s a risk of conflating correlation with causation. As expansive as this particular study was, and as much as the researchers tried to mitigate those risks by removing subjects who were smokers or obese, observational studies aren’t easily able to establish cause and effect due to the number of variables outside researchers’ control .
Food science — and, by extension, writing about food science — is rife with studies that both journalists and readers would do better than to take at face value, without taking note of their inherent complications and caveats. As journalist
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