Red Meat Scare

Mark Sisson on the recent news re red meat and processed meat - http://live-free-in-an-unfree-world.com

Amplify’d from lewrockwell.com

Sure enough, they found a link between processed meat intake and type 2 diabetes, with a smaller link between unprocessed red meat and the illness. A daily 50 gram serving of processed red meat was associated with a 51% greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, while a 100 gram serving of fresh red meat represented a 19% increased risk. Unprocessed meat included "beef, lamb, or pork as main dish" (roasts, steaks, chops), "hamburgers" (but I'm sure they got bunless burgers, right?), and "beef, pork, or lamb as sandwich or mixed dish" (served up on coconut flour bread, no doubt). Processed meat meant "hot dogs," "bacon," "sausage, salami, bologna, and other processed red meats."

To give a complete picture of the data, I'll briefly discuss what the "heavy meat eaters" did when they weren't eating red meat. You tell me if you notice any alarming trends that might have something to do with type 2 diabetes. Folks in the highest quintiles of meat intake were the least active and the most sedentary. They exercised the least and smoked the most tobacco. They drank more alcohol than any other quintile. They guzzled more soda and other sweetened beverages. In the high meat quintiles, folks ate 800 more calories per day than folks in the low meat quintiles. They were much heavier, too (all muscle, I'm sure). Trans fat intake was higher in the high-meat quintiles, too, as was potato intake (since these data included the years before trans fats were taken out of fast food deep fryers, I'm thinking these guys enjoyed a burger and French fry value meal on occasion). They ate the least amount of fiber from grains, indicating they probably ate the most refined grains, drank the most coffee, and ate the fewest fruits and vegetables. In short, people who ate the most red and processed meat were also the unhealthiest by both Primal and mainstream standards. And if what they were doing was actually healthy or neutral (like drink coffee and avoid fiber from grains), it wasn't by design. These people (all health professionals, ironically) most likely didn't particularly care about their health. Read more at lewrockwell.com

 

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