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Very interesting natural experiment for researchers who can start a study now and formulate strong links to cancer causes, diabetes, and all other ailments of modern westerns society


E.g. Syria's obesity rate is comparable to the US obesity rate: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2094121/

The amount of confounders at play here seems so large that I highly doubt anything meaningful could be learned from it.


No need when places like Nauru exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Nauru


Do you really need a study like that for diabetes? Is it not kind of well known in the general case?


Wouldn't they need consistent, reliable data from before the influx of imports as well? I can imagine Syria's hospitals have been too busy with casualties and injuries to have as good a record of lifestyle-linked illnesses as you'd need.


Wouldn’t mean much. Civilians from Syria are hardly a representative sample of “normal”. I wouldn’t count on the country being “normal” going forward either.




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