Whenever I see statements like “The French eat…” or “Americans eat…”, I cringe. How do we know? Turns out, we don’t. Here are two estimates of what people eat in different countries:
See this study by Ty Beal (on Twitter) and others:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00714-5/fulltext
Now, I don’t know if this is grams/day (70g/day of unprocessed red meat? ha!), but the differences between the two techniques are shocking. With this type of variability, there’s no way to say what people are eating, let alone how that affects any end point (eg, cancer, heart disease, etc.).