With recent headlines claiming “everything we thought we knew about nutrition is wrong” and that meat is back, on this installment of The Research Report I discuss the new set of papers published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine and figure out what they really say, and the implications of the sensational clickbait sweeping the media.
Show Notes
Annals paper(s): https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2752328/unprocessed-red-meat-processed-meat-consumption-dietary-guideline-recommendations-from
Harvard response: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2019/09/30/flawed-guidelines-red-processed-meat/
Marion Nestle’s response: https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/09/eat-as-much-meat-as-you-like/
David Katz’s response: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meat-eating-your-health-really-news-david/
True Health Initiative response: https://www.truehealthinitiative.org/news2019/true-health-initiative-respectfully-disagrees/
Previous review on sugar intake: https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2593601/scientific-basis-guideline-recommendations-sugar-intake-systematic-review
Current and Future Landscape of Nutritional Epidemiologic Research: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2712745
HEALM: https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-019-0811-z
Med diet and CVD: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29897866
Diabetes Prevention Program: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/research-areas/diabetes/diabetes-prevention-program-dpp
Meat Intake and Mortality: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19307518
BMJ meat intake and mortality: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2110
Atlantic Article, beans over beef: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/
Science reducing food’s impacts on the environment: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987
Beyond Meat vs. cow meat: http://css.umich.edu/publication/beyond-meats-beyond-burger-life-cycle-assessment-detailed-comparison-between-plant-based
Bacon and controversy: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/10/09/bacon-rashers-statistics-and-controversy/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork