That last food flip-flop made big headlines last week. It was a โremarkable turnabout,โ โjarring,โ โstunning.โ How, it was asked, could seemingly bedrock nutrition advice turn on a dime?
The answer is that many of the nationโs official nutrition recommendations โ including the idea that red meat is a killer โ have been based on a type of weak science that experts have unfortunately become accustomed to relying upon. Now that iffy science is being questioned. At stake are deeply entrenched ideas about healthy eating …. [W]ith many scientists invested professionally, and even financially, in the status quo, the fight over the science wonโt be pretty.
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The highly rigorous four-paper review of the science, in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine journal, looked at all the research examining health and red meat and concluded that only โlow- or very low-certaintyโ evidence existed to show that this meat causes any kind of disease โ not cancer, not heart disease, not Type 2 diabetes. Eating red meat isnโt killing us
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The nutrition establishment went ballistic.
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