The 9 IGNORED Risk Factors for Heart Attacks ~ Dr. Eric Berg

And I do want to touch on the difference between cause and correlation.

because there is a big difference, okay? When something causes something, it would be like A causes B.

But when something is correlated, A might occur at the same time as B, but that does not mean it caused B. It's a statistical relationship.

It's some association.

And unfortunately, every day on the news or the internet, you'll see things like, oh, high fat diet causes diabetes or heart disease or cancer.

They're implying causation.

And then you read the study and it absolutely positively has nothing to do with the causation.

There might be an association, but then if you read further, you're going to find that the person wasn't just on a high fat diet.

There were other variables, like they were also on a high carbohydrate diet at the same time.

And because the ketogenic diet is a high fat diet, people assume that the high fat diet was a ketogenic diet when it's not.

And so there's just a lot of manipulation when you see these studies nowadays.

Like here's an example of correlation, like inactivity causes weight gain.

Well, it doesn't cause weight gain.

I mean, it's associated, but it's not causation.