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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Those are anecdotes. The science of health is not a hard science like math. In math there's usually only one right answer (2+2=4). There's no exception to that. But health is much more difficult because there are always exceptions. However, exceptions don't make the rule. The rule is made by what happens to most people when they do XYZ. For example, overweight people are at higher risk for getting certain diseases like diabetes. And that's determined by doing large long-term studies.
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It seems that the analysis, the statistics, the rules and the links can all be picked to support whatever point of view is being advanced by each poster.
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