While
total meat consumption, particularly hot dogs and other processed meat, poultry, and fish, seems to be related to the risk of developing different blood cancers, merely handling meat may also contribute to the risk.
Total meat consumption (especially processed meat) has been associated with lung cancer risk.
Not exact matches
The United States raises 2,000 pounds of cereal grain per person per year; of that
total, 150 pounds is used for human
consumption, while 1,850 pounds is fed to animals to produce
meat, eggs and dairy products.
Apparently
meat consumption leads to greater weight gain, even when we're talking about white
meat like chicken, and even when other factors like
total calories consumed, weight, gender, and physical activity were accounted for.
For some eating patterns - including
consumption of
total vegetables, whole grains, unprocessed red
meat and milk - trends over time were similar regardless of race, ethnicity, income or education levels.
The massive NIH - AARP study looks at the relationship between
meat consumption and
total mortality, cancer mortality, and cardiovascular disease mortality.
Here's the title of the accompanying editorial in the American Medical Association's Archives of Internal Medicine: «Reducing
Meat Consumption Has Multiple Benefits for the World's Health,» calling for «a major reduction in total meat intake.&ra
Meat Consumption Has Multiple Benefits for the World's Health,» calling for «a major reduction in
total meat intake.&ra
meat intake.»
An ≈ 40 % reduction in risk for
total mortality was associated with the package of whole - grain
consumption, higher
consumption of other plant foods and lower
consumption of
meats, nonsmoking, increased physical activity, better education, and reduced body fatness, compared with those who rarely consumed whole grain and otherwise had a less favorable dietary and lifestyle pattern.
CONCLUSIONS: Red
meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of
total, CVD, and cancer mortality.
«Our data indicate that higher
consumption of
total red
meat, especially various processed
meats, may increase risk of developing type 2 diabetes in women.»
Although the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest cigarette smokers and although their
consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal
meat / blubber, and whale
meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted
total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9447397
And of course you have compare PV production energy requirements with the
total world's energy
consumption and you have to compare it with the world's
total deforestation and you have to compare it with the world's
total methane production due to the current and raising
meat consumption!