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Humans ate meat for thousands of years—so how could meat suddenly cause heart disease only in the last 100 years?

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This study shows that heart disease only became one of the top causes of death in the last 100 years, even though humans have been eating meat and dairy for thousands of years — so something new in the 20th century must have made it more common.

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This paper proves that heart disease was #1 for most of the 1900s, but only became the top killer in modern times — not in ancient times — even though people always ate animal foods.

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