Health effects associated with consumption of processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids: a Burden of Proof study

Study title… CNN title is only about meat.

A meta-analysis of observational epidemiology

All of the issues with epidemiology apply

• association is not causation
• hypothesis generating only
• healthy user confounders
• people eating meat are often eating high carbohydrate diets
• metabolic context of the participants
• food frequency questionnaires filled out yearly or every 4 years.

I don’t have access to the paper, it hasn’t made it to the Free Academic circles yet, so I haven’t been able to read it.