My newest piece takes a look at the recent news stories about red meat causing breast cancer, and why it's unlikely that steak is killing us allhttps://medium.com/@gidmk/red-meat-isnt-giving-us-all-cancer-b39e4369d7f2 …
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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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