Recommendations on red & processed #meat: "When only low certainty evidence is available [.] guideline panels should refrain from making strong recommendations & [encourage] individual decision making based on absolute estimates of effect"

Article 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"The ease with which one can distinguish justified belief from opinion varies across scientific disciplines [...] Epidemiology and clinical epidemiology lie closer to the latter than the former" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"the most vocal nutritional epidemiologists argue that GRADE is applicable only to contexts in which randomized trials are feasible. [A proposed] alternative is the NutriGrade method, for which the lead author now endorses GRADE over his own alternative approach" 💣
But: GRADE *can* find moderate certainty evidence for dietary scenarios (e.g. "short-term low carbohydrate and Mediterranean dietary patterns to reduce weight & blood pressure (surrogate outcomes)", but the case for red meat is simply weak to very weak.
"Given absolute risks [] are the standard approach for reporting magnitudes of treatment or exposure effects in guidelines, a source of major confusion is prior failure of dietary guidelines to highlight, or even report, the very small absolute risk reductions"

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19 Jul
"An 'IPCC for Food' is likely to be proposed as an outcome of the UN #FoodSystems Summit [.] This proposal stems from a small group of proponents but has been amplified by the networks & business interests which it would serve"

Report here: ipes-food.org/_img/upload/fi…
"The Summit is being used to promote a narrow #technocratic vision of #foodsystems in a manner which is opaque, exclusionary, & ignores a diversity of knowledge systems & contributors to sustainable food systems"
"calls for an 'IPCC for Food' originated from a small group [&] have been amplified by a powerful network of organizations [that] are using the UN #FoodSystems Summit to promote their 'game-changing' proposal [.] The [Summit's] Scientific Group serves as an 'early experiment'"
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7 Jul
“When primary data on red meat consumption are analyzed with validated methods & in a transparent way according to the highest scientific standards, the result's always the same: intake of unprocessed red meat poses no risk to general health &provides valuable nutrition benefits”
Red meat intake levels for the bulk of the world population are <75g/p/d. At such levels, there is no good reason to assume harm. On the contrary: meat offers key nutrients that are still limiting at population level. If anything, it's the lower intake levels that are concerning.
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15 Jun
#Nutriscore vs. #NOVA or, to put it differently, should we label this vitamin-fortified sugar formulation (that is obviously targeting children) as:

- "good nutritional quality"
- or as "ultra processed food"?
world.openfoodfacts.org/product/761303…
Greenwashing it as "BIO" doesn't really help much.
world.openfoodfacts.org/product/761303…
Tweaking the formulation by adding 20% "hydrolyzed rice" (nutri-washed as "cereals") seems to further upgrade the scores. It's still fortified sugar though. And it's aiming at 3-year old children.
world.openfoodfacts.org/product/761303…
Read 4 tweets
14 May
"No one left behind"
= PR slogan of the WEF technocrats

"Legal mechanisms"
= banning, restricting, forcing, ...

"Rethinking protein"
= replace animal source foods with factory-made concoctions
Brought to you by the usual suspects: EAT founder + a mixture of UN representatives, finance hotshots, animal rights/vegan militants, companies with vested interests in imitation foods, & their academic stormtroopers

Overview here: rethinkingprotein.com/?utm_campaign=…
And that includes... Oatly 🤦‍♂️ Image
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10 May
"Pemmican is a meat product principally comprised of a mix of dried meat&fat [] Purported high nutrient & caloric density & product robustness have merited pemmican a rich history as a food for Indigenous communities, fur traders, explorers & the military"
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33945979/
"Stefansson (1957) was a strong proponent of pemmican, & called the interest demonstrated towards it during WWII the “Second Pemmican War”. He described the studies undertaken as a revolt of modern dietitians against the traditional dominance of pemmican as an emergency ration."
"Stefansson gave clear recommendations for the use of pemmican believing it should only be an emergency ration and eaten in lesser amounts than would like to be eaten. He also believed that plain pemmican was the best"
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30 Apr
First of all, food systems don't need to be "reset", that's a ludicrous statement. And second: stay the hell away from people's diets, you predators.
Third, you're absolutely clueless when it comes to dealing with "systems". @WEF's toxic corporate network created this mess in the first place, and your #GreatReset & #DavosAgenda will just make things much worse. And put all of us at serious risk.
"Save the world" essentially means installing a top-down #GreatFoodTransformation, forcing us all into adopting a preposterous #PlanetaryHealthDiet and launching a massive dietary experiment which may lead to full disaster.
aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2020/08/ideolo…
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