Showing posts with label Animal protein intake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animal protein intake. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 July 2014

Dr. John Yudkin's "Diet and coronary thrombosis. Hypothesis and fact", The Lancet, 1957.

Twitter did it again. From https://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/heartofthematter/download/Yudkinssugartheory.pdf
This looks like bad news for the fat-lovers.

There's good correlation between Coronary mortality and total fat intake, for countries 15 to 7. For countries 7 to 1, there's no correlation between Coronary mortality and total fat intake, suggesting that other differences (e.g. quality of health-care, social stress, antioxidant status etc) are significant factors.

This looks like bad news for the meat/fowl/fish/cheese/egg-lovers.


This looks like bad news for the sugar-lovers.

Of course, association ≠ causation.
This looks like bad news for rich people.

In conclusion, total fat intake, animal protein intake, sugar intake & annual income are all associated with increased Coronary mortality, over a certain range of values.