Will Eating Two Slices of Bacon a Day Really Cause It to Fall Off? The Problem With Observational Studies.
The title is click bait, as are all titles about nutrition. "Eggs kill you!" "Eggs make the blind see!" "Tofu kills you!" "Tofu cures cancer!" I could find research articles that might support any of those claims, but I can only make one claim about nutrition and health: "We don't know!" Why? Because you can't put all the residents of Nebraska in little cages and control everything they eat or do. So you can't be sure that the eggs or bacon or tofu they eat does anything at all. It might be the twenty hours of horror movies that they watch every week that are raising their blood pressure. Or they might be getting too excited about politics. The eggs or tofu or bacon can get blamed for something else entirely. Think for a minute about any nutritional study being done in Flint, Michigan. I'm sure beer drinkers outperformed water drinkers on various health markers, but it has nothing to do with the health...