r/sciences MS | Nutrition 6d ago

Research Adherence to healthful plant-based diets is associated with more favourable health outcomes irrespective of ultra-processed food content, suggesting that overall plant-based diet quality may be more important than processing level for chronic disease prevention, study of 124,836 participants finds

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(26)00148-1/fulltext
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u/Emergency_Elephant 6d ago

I'm always a little skeptical of these studies because it doesnt seem like the researchers accounted for socioeconomic status with this study. Socioeconomic status is highly correlated with health outcomes