It looks like red meat isn’t so bad for your health after all, as a recent study debunked years of claims that consuming red meat leads to a host of health problems, such as stroke, heart disease, and cancer, according to Big Think.
Scientists at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) analyzed past research that led to the demonization of red meat and found the research to be supported by “weak evidence” and “lazy scientists.”
“We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease. Moreover, we found no evidence of an association between unprocessed red meat and ischemic stroke or hemorrhagic stroke,” the scientists said.
The IHME researchers said that it’s easy to find observational links between actions and outcomes, for example, eating a certain food can link to death or disease, but these studies are published in a lazy manner.
As a result, the researchers came up with a novel statistical method called the “burden of proof risk function” which is quantitatively used to “evaluate and summarize evidence of risk across different risk-outcome pairs”, the outlet reports.
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