Paul Saladino· MD
if you actually dig into that study what you'll find is that in the people who had uh this this connection between red meat and cancer there was also a higher incidence of obesity and insulin resistance and as we know observational studies really can't tease all this out so is it possible that the people who are eating more red meat also happened to be more rebellious and also looked like they were more obese and more insulin resistant absolutely and that's what you see in the study but the investigators only made the association between red meeting cancer and there's actually a stronger association between the obesity and the insulin resistance and the cancer incidence