Is it ok to eat red and processed meat, despite years of warnings that it could hurt your health? A new study says so -- but nutritional and health experts are crying foul.
, an organization dedicated to fighting preventable diseases, a group of 13 prominent doctors and researchers sought “to request and recommend that thepreemptively retract publication of these papers pending further review by your office. We do so on the basis of grave concerns about the potential for damage to public understanding, and public health.”
But there are no randomized controlled trials examining eating beef and its link to diseases like cancer and diabetes, “Because it’s probably impossible. You can’t keep people on specific diets for years and track,” says Willett. “I doubt we’ll ever get such a study.” GRADE rates the data from the types of studies often used in nutrition as low- or very low-certainty, which could explain why the analyses found no clear connection between disease and eating meat.
But most guidelines don’t depend on those observational studies alone -- they also take into account randomized controlled studies of things likeContradictory data
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