Study Links Red Meat Consumption to Early Death: How Often Do You Eat Red Meat?
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2012/03/13 16:30:08
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Love yourself a juicy steak? And bacon on Sunday mornings? We have bad news for you. A new Harvard study finds that eating red meat -- particularly processed red meat -- is linked to dying in middle age.
Researchers tracked the diets of more than 121,000 middle-aged men and women for up to 28 years, and found that each additional serving of red meat they ate per day was associated with a 13 percent higher risk of dying during the course of the study, Health.com reports.
Processed red meats, like hot dogs, bacon and salami, were even worse. Each additional daily serving was associated with a 20 percent higher risk of dying. But there's no need to go full-on vegetarian.
"Our message is to try to reduce the red meat consumption to less than two to three servings per week," said lead author An Pan, Ph.D., a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, according to Health.com. The researchers also suggest substituting one daily serving of red meat with fish, poultry, nuts, legumes, whole grains or low-fat dairy products. Cutting back to eating red meat 2-3 times a week doesn't sound so hard. Think you can do it?
Researchers tracked the diets of more than 121,000 middle-aged men and women for up to 28 years, and found that each additional serving of red meat they ate per day was associated with a 13 percent higher risk of dying during the course of the study, Health.com reports.
Processed red meats, like hot dogs, bacon and salami, were even worse. Each additional daily serving was associated with a 20 percent higher risk of dying. But there's no need to go full-on vegetarian.
"Our message is to try to reduce the red meat consumption to less than two to three servings per week," said lead author An Pan, Ph.D., a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, according to Health.com. The researchers also suggest substituting one daily serving of red meat with fish, poultry, nuts, legumes, whole grains or low-fat dairy products. Cutting back to eating red meat 2-3 times a week doesn't sound so hard. Think you can do it?
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Bunk11 2012/03/13 17:35:50Almost every day
+13I'd like to know who funded the study and what the political biases are of the people who conducted it. Did they take into account exercise, occupation and stress levels? Many of these studies are later shown to have been conducted by people with an axe to grind.
did you forget the question on this page?- "Study Links Red Meat Consumption to Early Death:"
My daughter is a vegetarian--- but strangely enough--she will eat meat from time to time if it is "cared" for/home grown or hunted in the wild. (So it had a "life" before it became food...) I think she has it right...
Not to go and involve religion but I think they were meant to be our food... I dont see anything wrong with killing what you eat, as long as you eat what you kill.....we have done it from the beginning of time to feed ourselves.... and I think it is more humane than what they do on those megafarms nowadays.
I don't delude myself that there is any "do no harm" way to feed the masses, but I do believe that if people at least ate way less meat, the suffering in factory farms would be lessened.
I do respect your daughter's thinking, and others who share her feelings. I don't want to involve religion either, but no, animals were not originally meant to be our food. No, we have not killed animals for food since the "beginning of time".
You wrote a beautiful answer.
(LIKE YOU SAID) "A list of some kosher foods are found in the book of Leviticus 11:1-47. There are also certain kosher rules found there. Reasons for food not being kosher include the presence of ingredients derived from non-kosher animals or from kosher animals that were not slaughtered in the ritually proper manner, a mixture of meat and milk, wine, or grape juice (or their derivatives) produced without supervision, the use of produce from Israel that has not been tithed, or the use of non-kosher cooking utensils"
(BUT--LIKE I SAID) "With regard to animals, Deuteronomy and Leviticus state that anything which chews the cud and has a cloven hoof is ritually clean, but animals that only chew the cud or only have cloven hooves are not. The texts identify four animals in particular as being unclean for this reason: the hare, hyrax, camel, and pig — although the camel ruminates and has two toes, and the hare and hyrax are coprophages rather than ruminants. Leviticus states that every creeping thing that crawls the earth is unclean."
I dont understand why you dont think that we have have eaten animals for food all throughout history though--- hunter/gatherer means exactly that.... even if you look back to Mesopotamia they ate mostly veggies but sometimes killed and ate their goats... If you know something more about the issue then please direct me to where I can learn about it.
my only point was that eating animals works as sustenance, and people have always consumed it to survive. So its not unnatural for people to do it...
I believe we have gone WAY overboard with meat (mainly fat), salt, and sugar in the US--- hence the obesity epidemic and the other crazy health problems...
I believe being totally vegetarian (and especially vegan-although I see nothing wrong with it) is more unnatural because the only reason in the past that people didn't eat meat was because of not having the money to obtain it on a regular basis. They farmed their foods and used livestock to work the farm... if a horse was the only animal you could afford, and he not only helped plow your field but also was your transportation---- you'd have to be a moron to eat him---right???
Don't get me wrong- As an ethical choice I can understand why someone wouldn't eat meat (and respect it...like I said, my daughter is vegetarian so I have had this conversation before)....believe me, that first kill of a deer for me so many years ago wasnt easy...the only way I could describe it was a religious experience because I respect the planet and wildlife.
I understand your point of view, and appreciate your discussing it with me. I'm glad you understand mine........we both recognize that many people eat way too much meat, and we both respect the planet and wildlife.
Oh wait. I forgot. The latest battle cry of the HSUS/PETA (real ones) Save a chicken, Starve a child!!!
Odd??
What is heavens name does not eating other living beings have to do with 'starving a child?
That "People Eating Tasty Animals" thing? It is redundant to the point of idiocy.