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"Epidemiology is much worse for you than red meat".

This is an interesting blog post that disputes the conclusion that red meat is bad for you.  Dr. Fuchs makes a couple of good points:  first, that the research is not based on a controlled study, so there is no way to know whether the difference in mortality is causation or just correlation since vegetarians and meat eaters differ in other ways than just diet.  He points out that the Harvard team knows this and did not claim that their work proves that red meat causes mortality, but the press picked up the story without making that distinction.  Second, the increased mortality rate Harvard calculated is actually very small according to his calculations.

Fuchs also points out that the study got widespread attention because it appears to confirm what most of us are inclined to believe anyway.  

http://www.albertfuchs.com/blog/?p=956


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