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Meat Consumption and Dementia? A New Post on Uncertainty Principles

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In a Swedish study published last month in JAMA Open Network, meat consumption was associated with cognitive health in individuals with a genetic risk for Alzheimer’s.
Does this mean eating meat protects against Alzheimer’s?
Does it mean avoiding meat increases risk–i.e., should vegetarians worry that their diets are accelerating cognitive aging? (Hint: I would.)
In my latest Substack newsletter, we take another trip into the nuances of nutritional epidemiology, particularly the implications of the anti-randomization problem.

A new post on Uncertainty Principles

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RFK Jr and the MAHA Initiative may have inverted the food guide pyramid, turning red meat and full-fat dairy back into health foods, but the American Heart Association has just doubled down on the low-fat, plant-based advice it’s been disseminating for decades.
Should we expect anything different from the organization that created the low-fat consensus 60+ years ago?
My latest Substack discusses the “one of us stinks” problem that inevitably arises when challenging consensus science.
It also answers the question raised last week by the Australian investigative journalist Maryanne Demasi: Why won’t the lipid hypothesis die?

Substack 11: Life Lessons from the Dearly Departed?

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I’ve wanted to write for years about the seemingly unseemly tendency in the nutrition world to speculate about the dietary lessons we can learn when a prominent promoter of a particular dietary philosophy passes away. It’s not inappropriate to ask these questions. But there are limits to what we can ever know. The recent passing of the basketball great Bill Walton gave me the motivation to address this in my latest post on Unsettled Science.

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