YOU CAN ENJOY YOUR CHICKEN DINNER.
This is why we need health reporters to have scientific temperament, have basic medical science paper reading skills, have the aptitude to ask right questions and provide a version of this news that informs rather than fearmonger.
This study claimed that weekly consumption of 300g and above of chicken meat was associated with increased risk of gastrointestinal cancers. This is not what the study actually said at all.
The study actually revealed that there are clinical researchers who are biased, who invest in poor methodology to drive their pre-conceived conclusions, are prejudiced and manipulate data using statistical torture to cherry pick outcomes they want to.
In under 2 weeks of peer review, leaving alone many important questions and variables that affect the outcome of this study, and without addressing major factors that promote cancer causation, the authors have published a study in a legit, substandard indexed journal called Nutrients to drive their prejudices against the meat eating community. Detailed alcohol use, physical activity, weight dynamics, genetics, family history of cancer, type of chicken meat (fried or boiled or grilled, processed or unprocessed) were left out intentionally.
The same authors group are well known to consistently publish studies on "benefits" of vegan/vegetarian diets and demonize meat eating communities.
Agreed, a "predominantly" plant based diet is metabolically healthier when compared to a "predominantly" meat (processed) based diet, but this outright generalization of 300g of chicken meat a week - calling it "cancer causing" is not just bad science, it's prejudiced manipulation of scientific data. It's garbage.
🚨 A recent study warns that consuming 300 grams of chicken weekly may elevate the risk of gastrointestinal cancer.
(Nutrients journal)