Paul Saladino· MD
so you can compare people who are vegetarian to people who are omnivores both groups have healthy behaviors now you see that the death rates are the same
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so you can compare people who are vegetarian to people who are omnivores both groups have healthy behaviors now you see that the death rates are the same
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but there's a pretty clear signal in the research that when you control if you compare for instance like the uk shoppers study is a great study if you look at the overall death rates of vegans versus omnivores vegans have a lower death rate but if you then control in the omnivary group for those who have healthy behaviors which i think starts to get at the healthy user bias or at least the unhealthy user bias you see that the death rates are exactly the same