The History of All-Meat Diets [Article]
We are taught that meat is an unhealthy, artery-clogging, fattening, cholesterol-raising, heart-attack inducing, constipating, tumor-producing food that should be avoided like the plague, and that a plant-based diet is the holy grail of health.
To the best of my knowledge, the world has yet to produce a civilization which has eaten a vegan diet from childhood through death, whereas there are numerous examples throughout recorded history of people from a variety of cultural, ethnic and geographical backgrounds who have lived on mainly-meat diets for decades, lifetimes, generations. What exactly did these carnivorous cultures eat, and how healthy or unhealthy were they?
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If epidemiologists wanted to see whether meat was harmful they could study a population selected from the two subreddits. We're probably less prone to the usual confounders — we remember what we ate years ago, we believe what we're doing is healthy so we lie about our food less
Of course they don't want to see
I don't think they are interested in doing interventional studies, they are expensive, slow, and usually don't give strong results. you can publish a observational study from a huge dataset every 6-12 weeks, for basically no cost, great for grinding papers.