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>>16064420
>the study raised the risk of total mortality by 13%
i love the wording in these jewish articles
do you realize what this means? if we google the general risk of colon cancer
>Overall, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is: about 1 in 23 (4.3%) for men and 1 in 25 (4.0%) for women
we have to multiply this general risk by 1.13. so your new risk factor then is for example for men:
0.043 * 1.13 = 0.04859
so your risk of developing colon cancer if you eat alot of red meat and/or processed meats as a male is 4.9% instead of 4.3% according to this study. this slight increase can even be because of statistical errors and it being a food questionnaire. quite useless. did you know that epidemiological studies that connected smoking with lung cancer had a 3000% increase? it needs to be ATLEAST 100% (a doubling) to be of concern. and then you do ACTUAL research into this, as an epidemiological study is not evidence, but more of an idea to research further into.