Meat & Life Expectancy – Diet & Health Today

Introduction

I came throughout this week’s paper mainly because the authors had referenced 1 of my PhD papers and so I received a notification from Study Gate of this actuality. The specific PhD paper referenced has been cited 231 periods (Ref 1). A citation does not indicate agreement with your paper and so a citation doesn’t routinely make a single truly feel good towards the paper citing it. Nevertheless, I did enjoy this paper. It was novel and it produced a refreshing alter from the epidemiology association publication factory. It was also despatched to me by several other individuals and so it became a ‘must’ for a Monday notice.

The paper was named “Overall Meat Ingestion is Linked with Existence Expectancy: A Cross-Sectional Information Examination of 175 Modern day Populations” and it was created by You et al (Ref 2). The novelty was evident from the very first sentence of the summary “The association among a plant-dependent diet program (vegetarianism) and prolonged life span is significantly criticised considering that it may perhaps be dependent on the lack of agent details and insufficient removing of confounders this sort of as existence.” This was not heading to be the regular person-wellness relationship paper. The aim of this exploration was to examine the affiliation concerning meat intake and life expectancy at a inhabitants level. This nonetheless establishes association, not causation, but it can (if completed nicely) conquer (at minimum to an extent) the nutritious person confounder.

We really should be aware that barely a couple weeks back, we examined a paper proclaiming that reducing meat (and dairy) would boost daily life expectancy (Ref 3). The You et al paper concluded the opposite – that meat ingestion is positively linked with existence expectancy – larger meat ingestion is connected with living for a longer time. Let’s acquire a look.