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Thought the red meat thing was debunked. Is it a problem again?
by Nux 3y ago
Thought the red meat thing was debunked. Is it a problem again?
- Dalewyn 3y agoThe keyword is a diet high in red meat. As it turns out, too much (or too little) of anything can kill you. As an example: Drinking too much dihydrogen monoxide can kill you.
- gerad 3y agoWell not if you cut it with an appropriate amount of chloride and sodium.
- loeg 3y agoI think it's correlation -- people who eat a lot of red meat tend to eat a lot in general -- so it's just a proxy for obesity. That's the usual problem with studies of high protein diets, anyway.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoHuh? Every study is going to have a variable adjustment for obesity.
- toomuchtodo 3y ago> A recent study shows that on any given day, just 12% of people in the US account for half of all beef consumed in the US. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/beef-usda-climate-crisis-meat-consumption https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/beef-usd... https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795
- nradov 3y agoLike most of nutrition "science" the whole thing is a bad joke. There has never been a single high-quality study which showed a significant causative relationship between red meat consumption and worse health outcomes. All of the studies that I've seen have been observational, relied largely on unreliable patient-reported data, had small effect sizes, and failed to control for key confounding variables such as the healthy subject effect. And what even is "red meat"? Are we talking about corned beef? Bacon? Venison? Grass-fed Argentinian beef? It's such a broad category as to be scientifically meaningless.