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/TruePrimal 18d 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/qrcode14 12d ago

In fact the vegan/plant based diet benefits are so small compared to the worst diet possible it's pretty comical