• Red meat is a nutrient dense food providing important amounts of protein, essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals that are the most common nutrient shortages in the world, including vitamin A, iron, and zinc.
  • Despite claims by the World Health Organization (WHO) that eating processed meat causes colon cancer and red meat probably causes cancer, the observational data used to support the claims are weak, confounded by multiple unmeasured factors, and not supported by other types of research needed for such a conclusion. Although intervention studies are designed to test the validity of associations found in observational studies, two interventions of low-fat, low-meat diets in volunteers that failed to find a benefit on cancer were not considered in the WHO decision.
  • It is likely that the association of red-meat consumption with colon cancer is explained either by an inability of epidemiology to detect such a small risk or by combinations of other factors such as greater overweight, less exercise, lower vegetable or dietary fiber intake, and perhaps other habits that differentiate those who eat the most meat from those who eat the least.

Full Paper - https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfy009

  • jet@hackertalks.comOPMEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Annoyingly too many of those are working in nutrition organisations both government and private, as well as in the World health organisation also the Heart Foundation

    This is the power of those who are motivated by philosophy and not personal gain. It’s an amazing ability people have to put a goal above themselves, but those same fanatics are not going to be the most objective reviewers of science

    It’s Time to separate Church and Plate. !

    The Legacy of the Temperance Movement … in an attempt to stop us consuming alcohol and meat, have we allowed the processed food industry to create our food supply? Are we simply going to sit back and watch Vested Interests and Ideology (with the backing of the cereal industry and coca-cola) to dictate health policy and continue to shape our dietary and health guidelines?

    This is a great read if you haven’t seen it already, it might make your blood boil a little.