Kendrick Curtis ([info]lieutenanth) wrote,
@ 2008-03-29 08:54:00
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Bad Science
Remember all that polava about fish oil improving your brain? That study in Durham, with the kids? It has been proven to be ineffective, so that's one less supplement for us all to not worry about not taking.

Just finished watching season 4 of The Wire. It was awesome. Can't wait to watch the final season now, despite Wikipedia informing me it has been cut from 13 to 10 shows :( It feels like someone has stolen 3 hours of Wirey goodness off me! The fiends.

To anyone who works in an office job: how do you manage to avoid eating too much at work due to boredom?

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[info]pujaemuss
2008-03-29 11:21 am UTC (link)
I always relied on big 1kg bags of dried fruit from Julian Graves when I was at IPL. Of course, that then leads to the risk of you getting too bored and downing the whole bag in one session.

PJW

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[info]nmitchell
2008-03-29 12:12 pm UTC (link)
"It has been proven to be ineffective" is just misrepresenting a non-result in the opposite direction. The 'study' proves nothing, in either direction, about anything. Fish oil may still be good for people, and may be good for things other than academic stuff (joints in particular, if you do high-impact sports). Or it may not.

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[info]lieutenanth
2008-03-29 03:36 pm UTC (link)
Ah, sorry, I meant "proven" in the "shown to be" sort of sense, rather than the scientific "we have proof" sort of sense.

Secondly, the results of the trial appear to have been "disappointing". This surely gives some weight to the idea that the pills are ineffective. If the pills had been effective, the study would have been published and we'd all be taking the damn tablets.

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[info]nmitchell
2008-03-29 03:43 pm UTC (link)
The study was so bad, that even if the results had every single student getting 10 A*'s, it still wouldn't have been published anywhere academically peer reviewed.

School results go up and down every year, for various reasons - typically a combination of many reasons. Given there was no attempt to control for this (i.e. a placebo group), it could equally be written up as a study on whether a leap year effects exam results.

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[info]samoth
2008-03-29 04:50 pm UTC (link)
To anyone who works in an office job: how do you manage to avoid eating too much at work due to boredom?

Being too screamingly busy to be bored? Or in fact, to eat... :)

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[info]matttt
2008-03-29 06:46 pm UTC (link)
I stave off boredom by doing interesting work. Or, at least, work that interests me. :-)

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[info]mooetta
2008-03-31 06:36 pm UTC (link)
I found I got fewer snack attacks when I started drinking more water, but that seems to have worn off now. If I eat too much at work it's not so much due to boredom as to people providing cake.

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[info]moomin2009
2008-03-31 07:02 pm UTC (link)
Possibly in that particular case, I could have sworn they had been proven to be beneficial to other fairly important bits of your body, like your heart.
I could be wrong about that, it's all a bit fuzzy in my brain now (but at least people can't blame it on me not eating fish...)

Is there anything healthy you can take in to snack on? Grapes or dried fruit are easily munchable but not too calorific.

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