{"id":6183,"date":"2022-04-04T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/?p=6183"},"modified":"2022-04-03T09:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:13:03","slug":"meat-life-expectancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/2022\/04\/meat-life-expectancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat & Life Expectancy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I came across this week\u2019s paper because the authors had referenced one of my PhD papers and so I received a notification from Research Gate of this fact. The particular PhD paper referenced has been cited 231 times (Ref 1). A citation does not mean agreement with your paper and so a citation doesn\u2019t automatically make one feel positive towards the paper citing it. However, I did enjoy this paper. It was novel and it made a refreshing change from the epidemiology association publication factory. It was also sent to me by several other people and so it became a \u2018must\u2019 for a Monday note.<\/p>\n

The paper was called \u201cTotal Meat Intake is Associated with Life Expectancy: A Cross-Sectional Data Analysis of 175 Contemporary Populations<\/em>\u201d and it was written by You et al (Ref 2). The novelty was apparent from the first sentence of the abstract \u201cThe association between a plant-based diet (vegetarianism) and extended life span is increasingly criticised since it may be based on the lack of representative data and insufficient removal of confounders such as lifestyles.<\/em>\u201d This was not going to be the usual person-health relationship paper. The aim of this research was to examine the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level. This still establishes association, not causation, but it can (if done well) overcome (at least to an extent) the healthy person confounder.<\/p>\n

We should note that barely a few weeks ago, we examined a paper claiming that cutting meat (and dairy) would increase life expectancy (Ref 3). The You et al<\/em> paper concluded the opposite \u2013 that meat intake is positively associated with life expectancy \u2013 higher meat intake is associated with living longer. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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