On flawed @TheLancet study alleging low-carb shortens life: 1. low-carb group was (hopelessly) confounded by higher rates of smoking, diabetes, obesity 2. study contradicted by 70+ trials--far more rigorous data--all of which show improved health on low carb 1/2
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If nothing else, the primary study outcome - death - was, for obvious reasons, NOT based on self-report, and to say that the study "relies on self-reported data" is a wildly misleading thing to say
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Moreover, the implication that self-report is not useful in this situation is odd. The study did use self-report to assess carb intake, but this is standard practice outside of laboratory studies. It's rarely possible to assess food intake with perfect accuracy in the real world
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She doesn't tend to.. only scrutinizes the data that disagrees with her pet theories and lauds the studies that confirm it (quality of study be damned).
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