Where/how do they get their data?
Do they have some way of backtracking everything cancer victims have eaten over their entire lives?
I would expect that most of these nutrition studies depend on self reporting.
Now, what biases might be involved in self-reporting?
I should also add: Why is it that every last one of these nutrition studies comes up with the same bottom line:
Eliminate from you diet everything that tastes good, everything that makes life a little more pleasant.
Here’s my crazy theory: A lot of these researchers are Marxists. What a great way to soften up the populace for the inevitable Socialist Utopia than by sowing fear that the very food they eat is going to kill them.
Miserable people are easier to manipulate. And it’s rare indeed that one of these health studies turns up a conclusion along the lines of — “it’s OK, just go ahead and live your life.”
After all, a neutral finding wouldn’t be very useful when applying for the next round of grant funding.
Exactly. Over the course of a lifetime, how many times do headlines like these start fad diets?