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siliconc0wlast Wednesday at 5:41 PM1 replyview on HN

"In over 24,000 participants from the NHANES study, high saturated fatty acid intake was associated with an 8% increase in all cause mortality risk. A meta-analysis with over 1,100,000 total participants showed that high intake of saturated fats was also correlated to a 10% increase in coronary heart disease mortality risk" (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.31403...)

(there is an argument for why this shouldn't apply to grass-fed meat but that is an extremely small minority of meat sold)


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tracker1last Wednesday at 5:54 PM

survey based study, correlation is not causation, and correlated affects not separable from other biases.

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