After reading «the China Study» in college and hearing that chicken was actually
worse than red meat, I swore off the idea forever.
Not exact matches
For instance, adding just one 3 - ounce serving of unprocessed
red meat — picture a piece of steak no bigger
than a deck of cards — to one's daily diet was associated with a 13 % greater chance of dying during the course of the study.Even
worse, adding an extra daily serving of processed
red meat, such as a hot dog or two slices of bacon, was linked to a 20 % higher risk of death during the study.
Basically, you try to make
meat out to be
worse than it is, when a far better idea would be to put emphasis on reducing
red and processed
meat, and reducing refined carbohydrate intake.
* Yes, newer studies show no effects on certain health risks, but if we become dogmatic claimers of how
red meat is super healthy, we become no better
than our opposition that is based in
bad evidence or average person arguments for that matter.
This analysis provides
red meat for all preconceived notions: 1) It's all natural or 2) It's much
worse than we thought.