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Disclaimer I only have access to the abstract. It seems unreal to me that you could explain a bmi jump from 25 to 31 in six months with a fruit diet. Their rand
by throwthere 4y ago
Disclaimer I only have access to the abstract. It seems unreal to me that you could explain a bmi jump from 25 to 31 in six months with a fruit diet. Their randomization doesn’t pass the sniff test.
IMHO, again without having access to the article, the most likely explanation is they have poorly matched trial and control groups with small (80) number of participants. That they didn’t report changes at all and just the final values raises a red flag.
The other major caveat is this was presumably done with Iranians and I have mostly no idea what their baseline diet is.
- tangue 4y agoThis. Plus hidden alcohol consumption is something that is never take into account while doing these kind of studies in muslim countries.
- ncmncm 4y agoThe fruit eaters drank more alcohol?
- credit_guy 4y agoI think the GP means that the stratification for the intervention group and the control group does not consider alcohol consumption. It probably considers sex, age and initial BMI, but alcohol consumption is an important variable too.