the cretan diet is low in meat and the fat mainly comes from olive oil. This is an example that supports the correlation with meat and heart disease. Now onto

the cretan diet is low in meat and the fat mainly comes from olive oil. This is an example that supports the correlation with meat and heart disease. Now onto the french paradox. First, you again are conflating fat with meat. They aren't the same so at this point you seem to be pushing an agenda through bait and switch. "French people get up to 80% of their fat intake from dairy and vegetable sources ... The principal aspects of this diet include high olive oil consumption". There is plenty of evidence and there are some outliers. Using outliers to claim that the abundance of evidence doesn't exist is disingenuous. Also, the american diet is terrible for other reasons such as the high consumption of highly processed foods. One can certainly find people that eat a lot of meat, but little processed food, and show that it's a healthier diet compared to one of highly processed foods. This doesn't mean that a diet low in meat and processed food isn't healthier, and in fact we there is a good deal of evidence showing that it is.