High protein diets are often confounded by processed meats and low fruit/vegetable intake, which may explain associations with cancer risk.

“I know there's people out there that will say that protein increases cancer well there's a ton of confounders to that like somebody's saying well there's healthy user bias sure but there's ton of confounders to people who eat high protein most protein in these meta analyses looking at cancer I mean you're talking about high protein is above you know 70 grams of protein per day or 1.2 grams per kilogram of body weight okay well where do most people most Americans eat high protein by defin of the RDA but where is it from it's from burgers and hot dogs and like a bunch of processed meat”