TheLeakingPen

TheLeakingPen t1_isccvbq wrote

Reply to comment by TheCorpseOfMarx in Meat, vegetables and health — interpreting the evidence: Although questions remain about several diet and disease associations, current evidence supports dietary guidelines to limit red meat and increase vegetable intake. by Meatrition

deaths per total population vs deaths per total deaths.

Also, A. deaths from "heart disease" includes more than just heart attacks.
B. 2020, 21, 22 are outliers. a LOT of heart attacks and circulatory issues related to Covid. Since its a heart attack, they lump it in, but I personally wouldn't unless they had previous heart disease.

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TheLeakingPen t1_is2h8rg wrote

Reply to Meat, vegetables and health — interpreting the evidence: Although questions remain about several diet and disease associations, current evidence supports dietary guidelines to limit red meat and increase vegetable intake. by Meatrition

Thing is, there are a lot of variables that none of these studies really account for. The few studies that also collected data on soda and other processed sugary drink usage found that normalizing for sugary drink consumption made the differences in meat and no meat practically vanish.

The other thing is, numbers are scary when you don't understand them. The general number is an increase in 9 percent per serving of red meat per day.

Heart disease impacts about 200 per 100,000 people in the US.

What this means, numerically, is that, lets use the above number as a base. If 200 people per 100,000 that ate no red meat got heart disease, than 218 out of 100,000 people who ate a serving of red meat every day would get heart disease.

Its not, "it gives you a 9 percent chance".

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