Eating meat could raise risk of heart disease, diabetes and pneumonia(theguardian.com)

Eating meat could raise risk of heart disease, diabetes and pneumonia

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/mar/02/eating-meat-raises-risk-of-heart-disease-diabetes-and-pneumonia

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From the conclusion: "Our findings from this large, prospective study of British adults show that meat consumption is associated with higher risks of several common conditions but a lower risk of IDA. The higher risks are at least partly accounted for by higher BMI, and some of the associations remaining after adjusting for BMI or waist circumference may still be due to other aspects of adiposity."

Being diabetic and overweight thanks to the pandemic, this study initially concerned me; I am planning to do some IF and keto to get this weight down. But reading through the study, all I can say is 'correlation is not causation'. The word carbohydrate is not even used once, and I really doubt overweight people eat no carbs. Learning how to bake was a big factor in my weight gain over the past year... no more scones for the rest of my life, it seems. My general sense given everything I have read is that the real importance of excess weight has not been fully recognized by medical science and instead everything else is blamed first.

This caveat about BMI being a significant factor and eliminating it resulting in a reduction of risk was buried in the middle in the The Guardian article. Journalists are ... <sigh>