> Nutrition isn't exclusively (or even primarily) about weight loss.

Maintaining a healthy weight is the primary health problem for the vast majority of people concerned about their personal nutrition.

Fair enough, but the article isn't about weight loss and a lot of research is done on how X food affects the chances of getting Y chronic condition later in life or how to best feed your children so they grow up to their full potential. It's pretty uninteresting to reduce nutrition science to simple dieting.

Sure, you're right that the article isn't about weight loss, but the original comment I was responding to was:

> Because a lot of people are suffering and dying of poor nutrition

In the developed world, they're mostly suffering and dying because of overconsumption (or reasonable consumption of really high-calorie food).

I'm not trying to say that I think it's as simple as 'put down the fork fatty!' or 'put the twinkie down!'.

I'm saying that instead of focusing on 'oh don't eat too many carbs' or 'lower your salt intake' as a silver bullet to 'why is our nutrition shit?', we should maybe be asking those harder questions: why is it so hard to put down the fork? how can we make it easier to be conscious of our caloric consumption?

Not all of the questions that we ask about digestion should be related to figuring out how to get people to lose weight.

Keeping weight low is the primary metric that people currently track and associate with their health, but that doesn't mean weight is the primary problem, just that people think it is.

> Keeping weight low is the primary metric that people currently track and associate with their health, but that doesn't mean weight is the primary problem, just that people think it is.

It absolutely is the primary problem for most people concerned with nutritional issues in developed nations. Obesity (which is quickly becoming the epidemic it's made out to be) carries all sorts of nasty side-effects that are well documented.