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Diet may help reduce cognitive decline

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Re: Diet may help reduce cognitive decline

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Ask participants about 24 things and you are bound to find correlations that have no actual basis in fact for that sample size. They might have well have asked about their favorite colors and music while they were at it. This is an obviously bad study funded by industries that are not impartial, and really has no business being posted here.

I've heard similar statements in the past, but I think I lack the statistics knowledge to make sense of it. Would you mind expanding on that a little? I.e., suppose that 3 of the questions were meant to test some theory that the researchers have, and the 21 other questions were thrown in for the reasons stated above. Now suppose that the answers to the 3 seriously-chosen questions weren't predictive of long life, but…

The problem is that the entire premise of the study is flawed, whether three questions were asked, or a hundred. Asking a hundred questions simply means it’s more likely your study will “succeed” in the sense of finding something to report that aligns with your agenda. Statistically, take any sample size. If you measure enough factors, you are bound to find some bias in your sample size.

Instead, a better study would consider actual science. Microbiology, biochemistry, etc and form measurable hypotheses instead of this spray-and-pray pseudoscience

Re: Diet may help reduce cognitive decline

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Genetic Factors of Alzheimer’s Disease Modulate How Diet is Associated with Long-Term Cognitive Trajectories: A UK Biobank Study DOI: 10.3233/JAD-201058

>Conclusion:Modifying meal plans may help minimize cognitive decline. We observed that added salt may put at-risk individuals at greater risk, but did not observe similar interactions among FH- and AD- individuals. Observations further suggest in risk status-dependent manners that adding cheese and red wine to the diet daily, and lamb on a weekly basis, may also improve long-term cognitive outcomes

This was self reporting study, and pure correlation study.

The study found correlation but very small effect size.

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