DailyDirt: Eat Less Red Meat. Cows Rejoice!
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Recently, it seems like there are an increasing number of studies supporting the idea that eating too much red meat is bad for our health. Consumption of red meat has been linked to cancer, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, cognitive decline, and the list goes on. Here are just a few more studies that will have cows dancing in the pasture.- Two recent studies in mice and in humans suggest that a high-protein, high-fat diet may shorten our lifespan. Instead, we should probably be eating a high-carbohydrate, low-protein diet (and settle with having more body fat as a result) -- which is the complete opposite of popular diet fads, like the Atkins Diet. [url]
- Phew! Saturated fat and cholesterol may play only a small role in the increased incidence of heart disease in red-meat eaters. However, the bad news is that it turns out that our gut bacteria metabolize the chemical carnitine (which is present in large amounts in red meat and is also added to energy drinks), leading to the production of another chemical called TMAO that enters our blood stream and increases our risk of heart disease. Apparently, TMAO helps cholesterol enter artery walls and prevents the body from getting rid of excess cholesterol. [url]
- A Harvard study found that eating just a single serving of red meat each day could increase a person's risk of death by 13%. While that may not change the minds of die-hard red meat fans who would rather die than give up red meat, it might be worth considering eating alternative (healthier?) protein sources. [url]
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sounds like an ad for Chik-Fil-A
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Risk of death?
So, now our risk of death is at 113%. Wow, that's horrible!
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Cows won't like that
If we stop eating meat, all cows will be killed.
See: http://xkcd.com/1338/
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I have a hard time believing this...
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hMMM!??
2 things about BEEF FAT..If you knew 1/2 of what they do to cattle, you would run out to the nearest RANCH, and have it butchered and wrapped THERE, and not at the store..
Harvard? Coulda/woulda/???? lets check out WHERe they got the beef.
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do you read your OWN DATA, before trying to SCARE PEOPLE??
" and they climb even higher for people who eat processed meats like hot dogs and bacon."
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Here is a "why":
One of the oils is cottonseed oil. Cotton is not a food crop so all kinds of 'interesting' chemicals are put on the crop to kill things. 'Interesting' translates into stuff that is not food rated as they were found not to be 'safe' for human consumption.
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Costco has peanut butter with peanut oil and salt (the only ingredients). At least they say it's peanut oil - in the interest of science and research I've tasted a great deal, because someone has to. They also sell humungous containers of peanut oil for cooking. Oh yum.
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You would think,but apparently not.
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You know who else ate red meat?
And look at what he did in life!
Eat meat and become like Genghis Khan, kids!
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Plus editor fail equals
Bad Joyce no biscuit
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Anyway, my grandmother lived to 98 eating fullfat cheese, butter, bacon, roast meat & potatoes and drinking full fat milk. She was never overweight and was healthy up until the time that she was just worn out. Maybe food sources are not so good for us as they were a few decades ago and maybe that explains a heck of a lot. Anyway anecdote is data, I say so.
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Politically Motivated Nonsense.
That's just the way the numbers work. Pretty obvious really when you aren't afraid of the math.
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That Harvard study
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Let's see, a high carb low protein diet is better for health
Fat people justifying their fat ways.
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Heinlein was Right (or someone else)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/308269/ 2/
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