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ZOMG! NOT YOU TOO, BACON!

doubleohfive

doubleohfive

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Heard this on NPR last night on the drive home. And while ShamelessMcBundy is no doubt having a coronary over it (see what I did there?), I wonder how everyone else feels about this news?

But a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds that daily consumption of red meat — particularly processed meat — may be riskier than carnivores realize.

"The statistics are staggering," study author Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public health, told us. "The increased risk is really substantial."

He found that people who consumed about one serving of red meat (beef, pork or lamb) per day had a 13 percent increased risk of mortality, compared with those who were eating very little meat. And processed meats raised the risk higher, to about a 20 percent increased risk of death from diseases including cancer and heart disease.
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Link to the original study.


So what do you guys think? Is this news the kind that will motivate a change in your diet?
 
I'm extremely anemic; apparently it's a genetic problem. So, even with iron supplements, I STILL have to consume a certain amount of meat every week just to keep going. I've been told that the body doesn't hold onto iron from plant sources as well as it does from meat, so if I gave up meat, I'd be in far worse shape than I already am.
 
I've cut back on red meat recently anyway, but this makes me think that if I DO have beef, I should add bacon, so that they can attack each other and I can reap the benefits. :)
 
I'm not a vegetarian, but I'm not surprised. Whenever I eat red meat, it makes me feel unhealthy. So, it's only an occassional thing for me anyway. Perhaps once a month, except for summers where grilling burgers tempts me and then it's perhaps twice a month.

Mr Awe
 
doubleohfive said:
He found that people who consumed about one serving of red meat (beef, pork or lamb) per day had a 13 percent increased risk of mortality, compared with those who were eating very little meat.
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I call bullshit. Everybody has a 100 percent risk of mortality.

As for more people dying of cancer, that's mainly because we're living longer nowadays. Which means we're not dying of things like typhoid, cholera, influenza, and tuberculosis -- diseases which used to kill people at much younger ages. The longer you live, the more likely it is that when you do finally kick the bucket, it'll be from some kind of cancer.

I'm not obsessive about my diet. I eat whatever I like. If I start putting on weight or my blood pressure goes up, I just eat less and exercise more. Works like a charm.
 
I usually have to force myself to eat meat. It's not generally a part of my diet... no more than a couple times a week, anyway.

Red meat has never appealed to me. I don't eat hamburgers, steaks, etc. Give me chicken or fish any day.
 
13% increased. As in 13% faster than those not eating it.

But yeah, bullshit study is bullshitty. Someone make me a burger.
 
Chemahkuu said:
13% increased. As in 13% faster than those not eating it.
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Well, the way it's phrased -- "13 percent increased risk of mortality" -- makes it sound like people who eat red meat daily have a 13 percent greater chance of dying.
 
100% of meat eaters were happier and were 100% less annoying to others by not continuously pester people about their pious eating habits!

Jim Gaffigan - "I haven't eaten a banana in a month. You don't hear me braggin' about it."
 
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