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Don’t Believe The Headlines From Every Nutrition Study. Here’s Why — From a Nutritional Sciences PhD
A look at two recent studies on vegan diets and eggs
I am always scouring the latest articles published in nutrition journals to find interesting new research on diet and health. Sometimes, I find studies like these two below that advertise striking findings, but actually, turn out to be all smoke and mirrors.
Two recent nutrition studies separately suggested that A) vegan diets can be useful for weight loss and B) egg consumption is associated with type 2 diabetes. Although the results of these studies agree with those themes, what these studies DO NOT show is that C) Vegan diets are superior to other diets for weight loss or optimal health and D) Any mechanism or proof that egg consumption causes type 2 diabetes. In other words, the results of these studies were very weak!
Unfortunately, news headlines have taken these studies and presented them in a very misleading manner. The researchers are also somewhat guilty for not indulging the full limitations of their respective studies. Here, I want to discuss what these studies actually show, and provide some of the contexts that would be easily missed if you only took a quick glance at the headlines or study abstracts.
