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 nostr:npub1a73wyr3s8ffagwsnlfd548d0nsaqcwdnn6550akehaxglw3kzc8qce7y6q I never trust these kinds of things. Most dietary studies just find correlations in data. Like this one

https://drc.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001252

If you've ever seen Tyler Vigen's page that points out spurious correlations you understand how insane it is that a whole research field is based on this kind of work.

https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

To be fair the link between smoking and cancer was found in this way but the strength of the data was magnitudes bigger than what is considered proof in dietary research.