In many ways, this is the quintessential nutritional epidemiology headache - observational research, one food-frequency questionnaire taken more than a decade ago, impossible to rule out many sources of bias
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There's also a huge number of previous studies that have failed to find a convincing association between red meat and breast cancer
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As well as this, the absolute risk increase that this study found for women at high risk of breast cancer who ate a lot of red meat for over a decade was TINY (~0.01%)pic.twitter.com/kDJ5n1Dd7x
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So...it's possible that eating more red meat is causing a tiny increase in the risk of breast cancer Unlikely, based on previous research, but possible This new study doesn't add much to that equation
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Mmmmm, steak
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Like, if you sprinkle it with sugar, it will give you totes cancer.
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beautiful looking steak ;D
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I’ll go with the logic/common sense of Thomas Cleave and not blame new diseases on traditional ‘old foods’. And his predecessor
@WestonAPrice who did blame ‘the displacing foods of modern commerce’.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1766611/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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