cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24943429

Human ancestors like Australopithecus – which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa – ate very little to no meat, according to new research published in the scientific journal Science. This conclusion comes from an analysis of nitrogen isotope isotopes in the fossilized tooth enamel of seven Australopithecus individuals. The data revealed that these early hominins primarily relied on plant-based diets, with little to no evidence of meat consumption.

  • AntiThesis@leminal.space
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    2 months ago

    You’re setting up impossible criteria for what studies you will accept as evidence against your position by saying you will only accept RCT’s with all-cause mortality as the end point as evidence. Like I said, nobody does this for studying diet…

    You seem to have a double standard for what qualifies as sufficient evidence against your view vs. for your view, as evidenced by the fact you think that the context of a keto or carnivore diet would completely reverse clearly evident trends despite a complete lack of evidence. Where are your RCT’s with all-cause mortality as an end point studying the keto diet? Where are your RCT’s showing that increasing LDL-C and apo-B does not increase CVD risk over lifespan-scale experiments?

    You conveniently chose to ignore the Mendelian randomization studies on LDL-C and apo-B.

    Your view on ldl-c and apo-b goes against expert consensus (https://www.lipidjournal.com/article/S1933-2874(24)00240-X/fulltext, https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.07.006, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28444290/), there is very compelling evidence that both, especially apo-b, have a causal role in long-term CVD progression.

    While the conversation has been interesting, I feel that continued exchange will not be particularly productive.