Total meat intake associated with life expectancy
You: International Journal of General Medicine: meat, life expectancy, health, nutrition, longevity, paleo, keto, carnivore, vegan, protein, carbohydrate
The plant-based narrative is falling apart faster than Beyond Meat’s stock. Nevertheless, VCs and special interest groups continue to pour abundant resources into an agenda counterproductive to the last 2.5 million years of human evolution… that is, eating meat.
Today’s review article gets right to the point:
“The association between a plant-based diet (vegetarianism) and extended life span is increasingly criticized since it may be based on the lack of representative data and insufficient removal of confounders such as lifestyles.”
Data was collected from 175 countries and the objective was to compare life expectancy at Age-0 and Age-5 with intakes of meat and carbohydrates respectively.
“Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistically controlled.”
These results are important because, as many in the ancestral health space have pointed out, the fact that many Western populations are over eating everything (in general, which includes meat), but specifically are eating a tremendously large amount of vegetable oils.
Also of note in the study we’re reviewing, is that meat consumption had a linear, positive (as one increases, so does the other), and statistically significant relationship with life expectancy; while carbohydrate consumption had a weak negative correlation (as one goes up, the other goes down) with life expectancy.
You, W., Henneberg, R., Saniotis, A., Ge, Y., & Henneberg, M. (2022). Total Meat Intake is Associated with Life Expectancy: A Cross-Sectional Data Analysis of 175 Contemporary Populations. International Journal of General Medicine, Volume 15, 1833–1851. https://doi.org/10.2147/ijgm.s333004
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