Epidemiological data suggesting lower protein intake is associated with lower all-cause and cancer mortality may be confounded by lifestyle factors like obesity and sedentary behavior.

“people are looking at you know vegetarians are taking in lower amounts of protein and they're all cause mortality and they're cancer mortality and they're just study after study after study and they have a lower all-cause mortality lower cancer mortality but but only in those individuals who are not obese not sedentary sorry are sedentary are smoking or you know they had some unhealthy lifestyle Factor”