Thread by @AndrewOlding

I'm having a pretty serious problem reading through @nutrition_facts' book. It's slow going because I keep finding things that sound suspect and I end up having to check the citations in the book.

I'll give an example.

On page 8 it reads "...meat (including fish)... has been linked to shortened telomeres."

This is cited. I have linked here to the publication cited.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18996878/

I have only read the abstract. Haven't even dived into the details of the article and I already have major problems.

1. It's a survey study. People aren't perfect at filling these out. They can often give misleading and even accidentally false answers, which leads survey studies to often be low forms of evidence. It's not no evidence, and it's not a major point of the book, so whatever.

2. The bigger issue is that the Results and Conclusion of the study DO NOT align with what Greger says in the book. The authors of the study are very clear that PROCESSED meat consumption is associated with shorter telomeres. They even use the word "only" in the results.

I've put my own notes in the margins, Incase this copy of this book ever reaches another person. I don't want people to be misled by what's being written in this book.

I'm on page 8. How bad is this book gonna get?

Tags for the people who most need to see this.
#vegan
#plantbased
#plantbasedfuture