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rick etter
 
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"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> rick etter 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....

> >
> > =======================
> > 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.
>
> Hehe. You're right. What a cruel and unflattering thing to say about

someone,
> but you're *absolutely* right.
>
> > 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...."

>
> He doesn't care about truth, just his agenda. He's wedded to bad dogma.

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maybe we could get him a formal introduction to pearly-baby....

think of the lys and delusions they could make-up together!!


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