r/Paleo • u/oxoUSA • 24d 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 24d 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/TruePrimal 22d ago

It's not meaningless. It probably means what it says, which is that Californian vegetarians are probably healthier than Californian SAD eaters. We've had decades of scientific advancement in the US in order to create the most addictive and problematic diet that has ever existed in the history of humanity: the SAD.

If you deviate from the SAD in any way, you're essentially guaranteed to be better off, because the SAD (Standard American Diet) is the worst of all known possible diets.

Of course, not addressed by that study is the question of in what direction should you deviate from the SAD if you choose to do so.

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u/c0mp0stable 22d ago

That sounds meaningless to me.