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.
the flip side of the coin is the healthy user bias the people who listen to health advice what are they doing they're eating more fruits and vegetables but they're also exercising more playing tennis more likely to be a higher socioeconomic status more likely to get in the sun less likely to smoke drink alcohol ride motorcycles ride electric tricycles write whatever the heck you want joyride your viper whatever you're thinking of this is the health user bias
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healthy user bias is this type of bias a type of confounding found in epidemiology that cannot be controlled for according to preeminent statisticians suggesting that those people who eat more fruits and vegetables in western cultures do so in addition to other healthy behaviors