Left: headlines about a study of onions and garlic and breast cancer Right: main table of results from the study Notice anything hilariously silly about these?pic.twitter.com/laTsCzwvvO
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Left: headlines about a study of onions and garlic and breast cancer Right: main table of results from the study Notice anything hilariously silly about these?pic.twitter.com/laTsCzwvvO
I'll give you a hint: look at the results in these columns on the right - they are the controlled models of garlic/onion intake and breast cancerpic.twitter.com/pagp78mX1l
The problem? THERE'S NO ASSOCIATION HERE BETWEEN ONIONS AND GARLIC AND BREAST CANCER Hilarious Love it
There is ~some~ association between eating sofrito, which in Puerto Rico (where this study was done) is apparently a complex sauce including garlic and onions, and breast cancerpic.twitter.com/QPnRBTmReX
But to then draw a link between garlic and onions specifically, rather than, say, bell peppers or coriander, seems to me a huge stretch
The other delightful thing about this study was that the risk reduction was only really apparent in the highest intake group - those who ate sofrito + onions/garlic MORE THAN ONCE PER DAY That's quite a lot of food
So either large quantities of Puerto Rican sofrito is the breast cancer preventive that we've all been waiting for, or something more complex is going on here I know which one I'd pick
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