
You’ve probably heard about the recent study that allegedly shows that eating red meat increases your risk of mortality.
Assuming you’re like me and want to live as long and healthily as possible, if this claim is true we must take action.
But first we must seriously consider whether it is true. How do we evaluate this claim?
It certainly sounds scary: it has prestige (Harvard), it has lots of data (over 120,000 people and over 23,000 deaths), it factored out a long list of other risks (like smoking, alcohol consumption, family history, physical activity levels), and it presents very specific and scary sounding risk percentages (like a 20% increased risk of mortality from one daily serving of processed meat).
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