Every Nutrition Lab course opens with a safety page for parents — allergens named, kitchen and garden safety, and what to watch for. Read it before you begin.
7 worksheets, 15 pages · parent guide, 5 pages
Why does every nutrition headline contradict the last one?
Because the long-term questions can only ever be answered by watching what people already do — nobody can assign thousands of people a diet for forty years.
That single fact explains most of the confusion, and almost nobody is taught it.
This course teaches how to read the evidence, and how to cook.
What's inside:
· Why The Headlines Contradict Each Other — observational studies against trials, worked through with the coffee example, where the finding was real and the explanation was wrong
· Reading The Study, Not the Headline — five checks, and relative against absolute risk, which explains a large share of frightening numbers
· Correlation Is Cheap — confounders, reverse causation, and the healthy user effect
· Who Paid for It — what funding does to research, and why dismissing anything funded is as lazy as believing it.
· Feeding Yourself — six things they can make without looking anything up, a cupboard list, and one real meal costed against its delivered equivalent.
· What It Costs — price per portion, and what food advice quietly assumes.
· What I Am Taking with Me The half that outlasts the subject: sample size, confounders, absolute risk, publication bias, following the money.
Those apply to every claim they will meet for the rest of their life.
Nutrition is simply the best place to learn them, because the evidence is genuinely messy and the stakes in the classroom are zero.
Every Nutrition Lab course opens with a safety page for parents — allergens named, kitchen and garden safety, and what to watch for. Read it before you begin.
7 worksheets, 15 pages · parent guide, 5 pages
Why does every nutrition headline contradict the last one?
Because the long-term questions can only ever be answered by watching what people already do — nobody can assign thousands of people a diet for forty years.
That single fact explains most of the confusion, and almost nobody is taught it.
This course teaches how to read the evidence, and how to cook.
What's inside:
· Why The Headlines Contradict Each Other — observational studies against trials, worked through with the coffee example, where the finding was real and the explanation was wrong
· Reading The Study, Not the Headline — five checks, and relative against absolute risk, which explains a large share of frightening numbers
· Correlation Is Cheap — confounders, reverse causation, and the healthy user effect
· Who Paid for It — what funding does to research, and why dismissing anything funded is as lazy as believing it.
· Feeding Yourself — six things they can make without looking anything up, a cupboard list, and one real meal costed against its delivered equivalent.
· What It Costs — price per portion, and what food advice quietly assumes.
· What I Am Taking with Me The half that outlasts the subject: sample size, confounders, absolute risk, publication bias, following the money.
Those apply to every claim they will meet for the rest of their life.
Nutrition is simply the best place to learn them, because the evidence is genuinely messy and the stakes in the classroom are zero.
