Meat consumption per person in 1850: 75lbs Meat consumption per person in 2020: 180lbs Like sugar consumption, this explains almost nothing about disease People are VASTLY healthier today than they were even 40 years priorhttps://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1220112662136266752 …
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It's a common (and easily disprovable) myth that we are less healthy now than we were in the past The reality (for anyone with the slightest inclination towards facts) is that the biggest driver of chronic disease is AGE, not obesity
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For example, most people don't know that the INCIDENCE of diabetes is falling across the world However, the PREVALENCE is increasing Fewer people are being diagnosed with the disease, but they live longer = more diabetes
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What you say challenges my understanding and beliefs. I'd like to learn more and discuss with you further when I recover from this f#%^n cancer teatment
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Sure thing! It was actually a discovery for me as well at the recent International Diabetes Federation conference. I had assumed incidence would be increasing - it certainly is in some places, but overall not Good luck with the treatment
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I know that it is in India and from memory China as well. Likely other developing economies. Would love data if you can send via email. I haven't looked in the last couple of years
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This review from @DiannaMagliano and others is a good read, but as you point out much of the data from developed rather than developing nations https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5003 …
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