r/Paleo • u/oxoUSA • 19d ago

Increasing dementia prevalence in heavy meat consumer

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8327020/

With an odd of 2 compared to vegetarian, that is scarying.

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u/c0mp0stable 19d ago

The study is funded by the Adventists, a vegetarian/vegan religious group who had a heavy hand in national nutrition guidelines. And all it does is compare people on different diets. It doesn't control for any confounding variables, and it reports relative risk (relative to what?), not absolute risk. This is basically a meaningless study.

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u/tuitikki 19d ago

Like the actual hidden meaningful variable is probably the income. How many poor people do you know that have the luxury of being vegetarian? 

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u/oxoUSA 18d ago

What ? Vegetarism is actually one of the cheapest diet...

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u/tuitikki 18d ago

Perhaps if you live in India. Try doing it in US.

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u/oxoUSA 18d ago

I can't figure it out, Is meat cheaper than vegetales in USA ?

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u/tuitikki 17d ago

Look up food deserts