by f1jim » Thu Mar 08, 2018 1:35 pm
As usual the devil is in the details. What's left out are those important details. Exactly what was the diet these people followed? No data. What were the correlations between legumes and other items such as meat or dairy? No data. It might be instructive to know if the people consuming more legumes consumed other heart unhealthy items. I guess it might be interesting to measure total legume consumption but in a vacuum it doesn't mean anything.
The correlations within the blue zones is far more valuable to me as a consumer as we had researchers looking at their diets as a culture.
f1jim
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