“The statistical associations made in the red meat and beverage studies don’t prove that these two dietary factors actually caused negative health outcomes, but the links remained after researchers took into account a variety of other factors that might have also contributed, such as body weight, smoking habits, hypertension, and diabetes.”
I ordinarily don’t comment on off-topic errors such as Gary’s, but the implications of the study are important, and shouldn’t be dismissed casually. I haven’t read the original article myself, and maybe it contains serious errors, but the people who do these studies are very smart – possibly much smarter than some of the people who criticize them.
Just sayin’