/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19803527
>>19803519
cico is a new-age diet fad where you're supposed to eat the shittiest food imaginable because traditional nutritional concepts like macronutrients and vitamins are too complicated

it was "discovered" by a no-name professor at some shitty community college in idaho who got paid by coca cola or some fast food chain to pretend he ate nothing but twinkies for a year

later it turned out he was eating steamed vegetables and protein shakes and taking supplements, but they didn't want the public to hear that part so they just shilled the "nutrition is a hollywood liberal scam" line and the gullible public lapped it up because people crave simple explanations that validate their resentment towards "the elites"

>>18595202
Because "simple duh" appeals to midwits who get scared and angry from thinking about anything remotely complex

Also there's a lot of money from soda companies and fastfood companies that are trying to undermine public health measures by promoting the idea that you are stupid if you don't understand the simple fact that you don't need to worry about macronutrients or vitamins or any of that shit, it's "simple" and for evidence here's a guy we paid to pretend to eat nothing but twinkies for six months (actually he ate twinkies and a lot of steamed vegetables and whole milk and lean meats but let's just pretend he only ate twinkies and if you question the agenda you're anti-science"