"usual suspect" > wrote in message
...
> wrote:
> > I'd bet that all of your precious little "studies" were done
> > by meat eaters.
>
> So?
>
> > On the same grounds, that makes them
> > all suspect and therefore invalid.
>
> Ipse dixit. You dismiss on minor formalities UNRELATED to the methodology
and
> findings.
>
> > Give me a 17 year study done on a statistically significant
> > number of people, with proper methods, not funded by any
> > food industry, conducted by both meat and non-meat eaters.
>
> Do you want one that finds the following?:
> This study was initially set up to test the hypotheses that daily
> consumption of wholemeal bread (as an indicator of a high fibre diet)
> and vegetarian diet are associated with a reduction in mortality from
> ischaemic heart disease; the reduction in mortality associated with
both
> of these dietary factors was NOT SIGNIFICANT.
>
> We found that a vegetarian diet was associated with a 15% reduction
in
> mortality from ischaemic heart disease. This was NOT SIGNIFICANT and
was
> LESS THAN the roughly 30% reductions REPORTED IN EARLIER ANALYSES of
> this cohort.... A vegetarian diet was also associated with a
SIGNIFICANT
> INCREASE in mortality from breast cancer. However, the confidence
> interval was wide.... The numbers of deaths for individual cancer
sites
> were small and the mortality ratios have wide confidence intervals.
The
> 41% reduction in mortality from lung cancer associated with daily
> consumption of fresh fruit was NOT SIGNIFICANT....
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Somehow he missed all that. He seems as good as lotus at finding a site,
then claiming it backs him up, and now he's being shown the door with it.
He must have missed this little revelation from the 'study' also...
"...A vegetarian diet was also associated with a significant increase in
mortality from breast cancer...."
>
> > I don't want moldy axes in the ground, or old wives tales about
> > old cutlures.
>
> You didn't get those. Those indigenous cultures -- Aborigines and Inuit --
are
> still around and flourishing, dipshit.
>