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There is plenty of evidence that shows that eating a plant based diet wildly lowers rates of heart disease. You can also look at the reverse: Diets high in sug
by the_economist 11y ago
There is plenty of evidence that shows that eating a plant based diet wildly lowers rates of heart disease.
You can also look at the reverse: Diets high in sugar lead to increased heart disease.
By western diet I meant a diet of modern civilization.
- trowawee 11y agoBy "carrot", I meant "wombat". And literally the topic of this thread is an article discussing how small sample sizes, bad methodology, and statistical massaging/manipulation (depending on where you want to situate people on the stupid/evil continuum) mean that nutritional studies can't actually be trusted. The evidence that we have is all over the map.
- the_economist 11y agoThere is a huge difference between looking at nutritional studies with small sample sizes and huge populations, their diets, and the diseases they get.