Total Meat Intake is Associated with Life Expectancy
Another study about FOOD! Not to be too boring, just the tasty parts: We examined the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level based on ecological data published by the United Nations agencies. Population-specific data were obtained from 175 countries/territories. Scatter plots, bivariate, partial correlation and linear regression models were used with SPSS 25 to explore and compare the correlations between newborn life expectancy (e (0) ), life expectancy at 5 years of life (e (5) ) and intakes of meat, and carbohydrate crops, respectively. The established risk factors to life expectancy - caloric intake, urbanization, obesity and education levels - were included as the potential confounders. Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistical...