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f1shy01/21/20251 replyview on HN

No if they correlate strongly: people eating more vegetables are more likely to do sport, and care about sleeping. Not to mention visiting a doctor much often. That is just one example.


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amanaplanacanal01/21/2025

Yeah this is a major issue. The first study that reports a link between some specific thing and health pollutes the data for all follow-up studies, because the folks that care the most about their health are going to change their behavior based on it. So after that you will always see a correlation with all the other things that have been reported to be healthy.