The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
if you look at studies it's very clear the okinawan diet has a lot of meat okinawa is a region that has improved longevity and lifespan compared to mainland japan but there are really good studies of what the okinawans actually eat
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What they found in this study was that the Okinawans actually ate more meat than their Japanese cohorts because Buddhism was not a thing there and meat was not shunned. And when they looked for centenarians, they didn't find any among the vegetarians.