The way we fund science in nutrition and chronic disease research is also partly responsible for this thinking. The confluence of diet and chronic disease is not a scientific discipline in which all or many of the researchers band together to answer a few critically important questions, although I would argue that it should be. The National Institutes of Health and other research agencies fund thousands or tens of thousands of researchers to answer thousands or tens of thousands of small questions, and the hope is that out of these pieces a coherent picture will emerge. Instead, what we have
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