I could sure go for some Ivermectin squeezed on top of a hotdog and washed down with some motor oil about now.
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publishing this article three days before independance day is terrorism
edit: two days. Somehow I thought the fourth of july was on the fifth.
i usually use a little mnemonic device to remember exact dates for holidays. for fourth of July i try to match the last word with the month of the year and the first word with the day of the month.
Can I have a little sausage, as a treat?
I felt shitty, I made changes to my diet and exercise, I feel much better now.
It doesn't take research to convince me that processed foods, especially industrial, large scale, profit-above-all-else, processed food is bad for me.
These results shouldn't surprise anyone, and I don't think they do. But, people will find excuses to keep doing unhealthy things they enjoy, and that is their prerogative.
Some of this food isn't great for you, but if you only have it now and then it shouldn't be a problem.
Moderation and a diverse diet is key.
Jokes on them. I do tons of unsafe shit, and probably only one of those things is going to kill me. There will be no accountability for 99.9% of the bad behavior, including unregulated hotdog intake. Suckers.
For me, it's about the quality of life before I die, not which shitty thing I'm willingly doing to my body that ends up "winning".
Didn't think it needed the /s, but maybe it always needs the /s
I'm not a nutritional epidemiologist.
But I've started to get into learning about it in the last few months.
It's really starting to feel like this is a giant bullshit field, and as much as they are trying to find useful results, there's something severely wrong with how they seem to arbitrarily assign causality and correlation.
In a contrived example: "People who live near power lines have more cancer" - "No, poor people live near power lines because they're poor, and poor people have more cancer"
What are the kind of people that eat processed hot dogs? I can promise you they are not millionaires. I can promise you it's not people who can afford filet mignon but decide to have a steamed hot dog. It's not people who work out and take care of their bodies. It's not people who cook.
So when a study is done like this, what answer are you actually getting? probably finding out that the type of people who eat processed meat are more prone to these conditions for a variety of considerations that are just totally left out of the analysis.
We have collectively forgotten that correlation != causation
I actually don't think it's possible to forget. In the sense that pattern recognition and chain-of-event are thought structures baked into our very beings. We don't intuit that most things are random in a greater sense, and probabilistic on a finer resolution. We're always looking for self-satisfying, singular paths of causality and they don't exist.
Touch red hot metal burn skin; Stab self in face make self not alive. A necessary abbreviated thought structure essential to human survival.
Extend that perspective to eat ween get beetus. Wait.
What is the field of nutritional epidemiology hoping to accomplish by obsessively searching for links (their magic word) between disease and dietary intake? It assumes, by the very nature of the question, that there is a direct causal relationship between diet & illness. There can't be. Any sufficiently complicated system of interrelationships is going to have massive amounts of turbulence and chaos!
Basically: wanna live healthy and forever? Just become a billionaire! If you don't want to live healthy then I guess that's your choice to make.
Well, you're right and I'm surprised I've never thought of this before.
The EMF from power lines was a real mind virus that went around when I was a teenager!
I've been alive too long and have seen this pattern play out again, and again, and again. Feeling a little sad right now, actually.
For another example: all my life the common sense accepted wisdom, supported by real dermatologists was that to keep the likelihood of skin cancer to a minimum there is zero known healthy level of sun exposure. Well that's all out the f'king window in 2025 because we now know the deleterious effects of insufficient sun exposure are vastly more severe compared to an increased morbidity for types of skin cancer.
I don't want to be mr critical, but... there's something wrong in our whole approach to these "studies" and I don't know what fixes it. Any experts wanna help describe what I'm getting at with the right technical language?
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sorry but one hotdog a day is not a small nor moderate amount.
What I liked was their phrasing: "people who ate as little as one hot dog a day"
I'm assuming it's just the average though, I generally ingest my 7 hotdogs for Monday morning breakfast, and then eat healthy the rest of the week.
Right lol that’s an insane amount of hot dogs
Every few trips to Costco already seems too often, but it is delicious.
There are plenty of toddlers who'd disagree with you
Ya well in the 70s and 80s this was what we as kids were given to eat.
I'm paying for that now
i can't argue with toddlers
Are the Germans dying in droves due to this?
as little as one hot dog a day
That still seems like a lot to me.
The hot dog was supposed to be an example. A more common one is lunch meat, which some people do eat every day.
Fair point. My kid eats a lot of turkey sandwiches.
Anyone know the conversion rate of turkey slices to hotdogs?
Well if you roll up a Turkey slice its about the same size? Hard to say though, it varies by brand and region. Most of this stuff doesnt apply outside the US as much either as food standards tend to be very low in the states.
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It’s also important to note that the studies included in the analysis were observational, meaning that the data can only show an association between eating habits and disease –– not prove that what people ate caused the disease
right. that's just about any food study! it's the trouble with the nutrition field in general
Sometimes they can control for known variables. I don't think they did it in this case
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Im so screwed.
Be like a Harley rider - embrace your dangerous lifestyle.
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