The actual paper says:<p>"Food items such as meat pie, hamburger, ham, sausages, beef, capsicum, and cabbage were identified as important variables associated with AD in RF and SLR analyses"<p>AD = Altzheimer's Disease,
RF = Random Forest classifier,
SLR = Sparse Logistic Regression<p><a href="https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/jad230634" rel="nofollow">https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...</a><p>And while one could argue that hamburger is unhealthy processed food, I find it odd to see "capiscum" and "cabbage" on the list of bad foods.
Nitrates in meat have long been known as a problem for other reasons too, haven't they? Particularly with regards to various digestion related cancers - this gives another reason to cut back.<p>The linked artical is a bit ambiguous though; initially it says:<p>> diet with lots of meat and processed foods<p>and then later<p>> patients with Alzheimer's tended to eat a diet rich in "processed food and meat items"<p>is "processed" in the second one referring to just "food" or both food and meat?
It's a long way from pizza to prions. There is just a correlation, not cause and effect. For all I know, the craving for processed foods might be a symptom and not a cause. Saying that because I know zero about Alzheimers and the one thing I know is that finding a cause is the way to a cure.<p>Also, that simple is beautiful, but sometimes difficult to do (cooking for one)
Title feels misleading since the study specifically calls out "processed" foods and meats.<p>> MFA revealed trends in the data and a strong correlation (Lg = 0.92, RV = 0.65) between the daily consumption of processed food and meat items in AD patients.