Impossible Whopper contains no estrogen; will not lead to men growing breasts if eaten in moderation w/commentary by @kcklatt and @GardnerPhD
https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/impossible-whopper-contains-no-estrogen-will-not-lead-to-men-growing-breasts-if-eaten-in-moderation/ … via @HealthFeedback
Lots of loaded language there, but probably worth pointing out that this study on soy is no more convincing than the ~many~ similar trials showing associations between meat consumption and a host of negative outcomes. Using a single measure of dietary exposure...
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...and not controlling for important factors (i.e. maternal substance use) could easily have led to a spurious result. It's also quite worrying, given they used logistic regression, that they don't report the numbers in each group. It appears the weekly soy intake group...
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...may have been quite small, which would make the logistic regression unreliable. There was also a very high attrition rate for the follow-up data, which they examine in the supplementaries, and could have completely reversed some of those associations
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The meat associations are small and non-specific. Associations between meat avoidance and mental health problems are stronger and are specific for those things we would reasonably expect to see once we understand the biology.
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The associations you've got in that paper are small and non-specific and have extremely vague theoretical backing so...
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