The kneejerk reactions are justified IMO. You don’t need to “minimize” peas and carrots to have a healthy diet. Obviously they shouldn’t be all you eat, but that holds for pretty much all foods - balance is key.
There’s several issues with your source.
First, it would have been nice of you to link to the relevant figure so others aren’t forced to comb through the whole thing.
Second, it’s important to point out that this data only shows correlation. The data is interesting for sure, but one should be cautious about demonizing a particular food group based on this alone, considering that the main point of the study was to analyze the health benefits of particular diets rather than food groups.
(note also that fast/fried foods got a positive score, which makes me further apprehensive about drawing quick conclusions from this data)
Third, this study focused on health professionals only. I don’t know why it shouldn’t generalize to the general population but it is not a given that it does.
Most importantly, it is not clear (to me at least) that peas and carrots are part of the category “starchy vegetables” according to this study. I couldn’t find any explicit description of the categories, please let me know if there is one in the study or one of its sources.
From what I could find online, peas can be considered starchy vegetables, but carrots usually aren’t.
For instance, this site classifies both carrots and some types of peas as non-starchy.
The kneejerk reactions are justified IMO. You don’t need to “minimize” peas and carrots to have a healthy diet. Obviously they shouldn’t be all you eat, but that holds for pretty much all foods - balance is key.
There’s several issues with your source.
First, it would have been nice of you to link to the relevant figure so others aren’t forced to comb through the whole thing.
Second, it’s important to point out that this data only shows correlation. The data is interesting for sure, but one should be cautious about demonizing a particular food group based on this alone, considering that the main point of the study was to analyze the health benefits of particular diets rather than food groups.
(note also that fast/fried foods got a positive score, which makes me further apprehensive about drawing quick conclusions from this data)
Third, this study focused on health professionals only. I don’t know why it shouldn’t generalize to the general population but it is not a given that it does.
Most importantly, it is not clear (to me at least) that peas and carrots are part of the category “starchy vegetables” according to this study. I couldn’t find any explicit description of the categories, please let me know if there is one in the study or one of its sources.
From what I could find online, peas can be considered starchy vegetables, but carrots usually aren’t. For instance, this site classifies both carrots and some types of peas as non-starchy.