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by aradox66 501 days ago
The same findings have been made with other animal protein in general, the going theory is that animal foods are protein dense and protect against sarcopenia which is very well established to contribute a lot to all cause mortality in the elderly.
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stubish 501 days ago
It seems almost impossible to get the elderly to eat enough protein. Even those aware that they should be changing their diet. A lifetime of habit and greatly diminished appetite means pushing protein dense foods. I've very grateful for studies such as this, to help with my thankfully scientifically minded seniors. If you can only fit in a spoonful or two, you have to make it count.
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adrian_b 501 days ago
Adding and mixing some protein powder, e.g. whey protein concentrate, into various kinds of foods can enrich them greatly in protein, with a very small increase in bulk, so one can have an adequate protein intake without eating much.
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aradox66 501 days ago
The protective effects against sarcopenia end up outweighing the negative cardiovascular and cancer risks past a certain age
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nradov 501 days ago
Which negative cardiovascular and cancer risks are you referring to?
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KempyKolibri 500 days ago
Presumably the increased cardiovascular disease risk from animal protein in general, most evident in processed meat, then red meat, then other sources in order of effect size.

Not so sure about cancer risk outside of the colorectal cancer risk associated with processed meat and unprocessed red meat.

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nradov 500 days ago
Huh? I'm not aware that any such causal risk has been established. At least nothing that meets evidence-based medicine criteria.
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KempyKolibri 500 days ago
What are the criteria you believe are required to establish causal risk between an exposure and an outcome?
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nradov 500 days ago
Something that scores at least a "B" on the AFP Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT) would be a good start.

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/authors/ebm-toolkit.html?cmpid...

So far the studies that appear to show a correlation between meat consumption and negative health outcomes have all been barely a step above junk science. We're talking about observational studies with poor controls (healthy subject effect), multiple uncontrolled variables, and small effect sizes.

https://peterattiamd.com/meat-consumption-and-diabetes/

https://peterattiamd.com/donlayman/

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