Exactly, but I always take such findings with a grain of salt.
For example, the authors conclude ‘meat consumption’ as follows:
“In general, studies of dietary patterns and risk of AD can show the general association of large food factor categories on risk but cannot apportion the risk according to food factor category. Also, the fact that the DASH, MedDi, and MIND dietary patterns permit some meat consumption means that meat’s role cannot be carefully assessed.”
My primary critique of the study’s authors is their stubborn adherence to ‘diets’, whereas a majority of the population subjects themselves to emotional dietary patterns which do NOT follow said ‘diets’.
That stated, most who follow keto do so not of an intellectual foundation, but emotional. Keto is not a lifestyle, but a regimen having been abused & twisted by promoters into a lifestyle option despite all the evidence to the contrary.
My conclusion is that the study authors have an inherent bias against meat, but it does little to discredit their findings against ‘big food’ (i.e., processed foods).
If I can, with ordinary kitchen tools, make the food from raw ingredients in my kitchen, it is food. Now this does not mean I will always make it that way but can I do it.
Oddly enough this has resulted in our not eating canned pumpkin puree because there is no way to make that safely in your kitchen. Cubed yes, puree no. The cubed has more fiber and less sugar per ounce as well.
But if the food requires processing beyond that it is moved into the ultra-processed category and is junk food.
So far, so good. We all pass the yearly physical with flying colors.