Not the same a US Francfurter and one from the EU, which has a strict regulations regarding preparation and content. US food in general is one of the most unhealthy of the first world, due to additives banned in the rest of the world, to disguise bad and cheap quality.
people who ate as little as one hot dog a day
Who TF is eating a hot dog every day? That’s their idea of a minimum amount of a particular food?
Health effects associated with consumption of processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids: a Burden of Proof study
Study title… CNN title is only about meat.
A meta-analysis of observational epidemiology
All of the issues with epidemiology apply
- association is not causation
- hypothesis generating only
- healthy user confounders
- people eating meat are often eating high carbohydrate diets
- metabolic context of the participants
- food frequency questionnaires filled out yearly or every 4 years.
I don’t have access to the paper, it hasn’t made it to the Free Academic circles yet, so I haven’t been able to read it.
