P.D. Mangan is an extremely fit man in his sixties, who analyzes studies and takes them apart. He writes the Rogue Health and Fitness website and is the author of four health books. I recommend his entire site, and also his Twitter: twitter.com/Mangan150. Here is Mangan on red meat.
http://roguehealthandfitness.com/red-meat-is-health-food/
Many health authorities denigrate meat, especially red meat, saying that it will clog arteries, cause cancer, and ruin the planet. In reality, red meat is health food, both for what it contains and what it does not contain, for what it does to the body and for what it doesn’t.
Humans have been eating meat for millions of years, from the time in fact before they were really human. The notion that this ancient and preferred food of humans now causes heart disease, diabetes and cancer, doesn’t pass the smell test.
Does red meat cause disease?
You have to have been living in a cave for the past several decades not to have heard that red meat is bad for health. What’s the reality?
A recent meta-analysis (study of studies) looked at 20 different studies on the relation between red meat and coronary heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. The review concluded that red meat consumption was not associated with any of these diseases.
Another recent study, EPIC, looked at almost 500,000 people and found no relation between red meat consumption and all-cause mortality.
What about cancer? A recent analysis found that the “available epidemiologic data are not sufficient to support an independent and unequivocal positive association between red meat intake and CRC [colorectal cancer, the cancer most often claimed to be meat-caused].”
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The text is an excerpt, but Mangan explains more benefits from eating meat, the nutrition you can't get from any vegetable. And also the benefit of avoiding insulin-raising carbs. The Left demonizes meat as part of the drive to make Westerners feel guilty and deserving of death.
Meat is good for you. Humans have been eating it throughout our existence and we are adapted to it. A diet of fat/protein and vegetables is an excellent diet.
We eat grains because they are easy to store and mass produce. Tribes that started with this food could out-compete other tribes. That's the only reason. It is not better food. Grains are carbs, and all carbs turn to sugar in your body. Furthermore, grains cause inflammation in your joints, a major reason for aging. The sugar you eat attaches itself to the collagen under your skin and makes it stiff and brittle, so that it breaks and you get wrinkles. Grains also break down your teeth. Old bones from the Stone Age show that when people switched from meat to grains, they became shorter and their teeth and joints suffered more damage.
But the hack Ancel Keys had a pet theory: that it was meat, not grains, that was bad. He made his "Seven Nation Study" where he picked some countries and ignored others in order to push his theory. For example, he ignored France, West Germany and Sweden, with high levels of meat-eating and lean waists, and instead picked Yugoslavia and Crete. Crete? They had low rates of heart disease, yes. They were studied partly during Lent, when they as Orthodox were forbidden from eating meat - drastically affecting the level of recorded meat-eating. There were also other troubles with the study, such as only looking at twelve men on the island.
Ancel Keys was sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, who had just invented Crisco, the world's first vegetabilic shortening. They were pushing it on their "soaps" on the radio, shows interspersed with P&G's commercials, causing all the housewives to buy Crisco, and elevating Ancel Keys to the top of the American Heart Association. The AHA became the media's go-to source on diet, and here we are. Americans have swollen in pace with increased carb consumption, especially in the last few decades. Even though they exercise about as much as in the 1980s, so it's not a lack of exercise that is the culprit.
One thing you should look out for however is too high levels of iron. The body has difficulty getting rid of iron on its own. Women get rid of it by menstruating, but men would do well to donate blood twice a year to keep iron levels stable. Green tea and coffee also help the body remove iron, while alcohol has the opposite effect.
http://roguehealthandfitness.com/red-meat-is-health-food/
Many health authorities denigrate meat, especially red meat, saying that it will clog arteries, cause cancer, and ruin the planet. In reality, red meat is health food, both for what it contains and what it does not contain, for what it does to the body and for what it doesn’t.
Humans have been eating meat for millions of years, from the time in fact before they were really human. The notion that this ancient and preferred food of humans now causes heart disease, diabetes and cancer, doesn’t pass the smell test.
Does red meat cause disease?
You have to have been living in a cave for the past several decades not to have heard that red meat is bad for health. What’s the reality?
A recent meta-analysis (study of studies) looked at 20 different studies on the relation between red meat and coronary heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. The review concluded that red meat consumption was not associated with any of these diseases.
Another recent study, EPIC, looked at almost 500,000 people and found no relation between red meat consumption and all-cause mortality.
What about cancer? A recent analysis found that the “available epidemiologic data are not sufficient to support an independent and unequivocal positive association between red meat intake and CRC [colorectal cancer, the cancer most often claimed to be meat-caused].”
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The text is an excerpt, but Mangan explains more benefits from eating meat, the nutrition you can't get from any vegetable. And also the benefit of avoiding insulin-raising carbs. The Left demonizes meat as part of the drive to make Westerners feel guilty and deserving of death.
Meat is good for you. Humans have been eating it throughout our existence and we are adapted to it. A diet of fat/protein and vegetables is an excellent diet.
We eat grains because they are easy to store and mass produce. Tribes that started with this food could out-compete other tribes. That's the only reason. It is not better food. Grains are carbs, and all carbs turn to sugar in your body. Furthermore, grains cause inflammation in your joints, a major reason for aging. The sugar you eat attaches itself to the collagen under your skin and makes it stiff and brittle, so that it breaks and you get wrinkles. Grains also break down your teeth. Old bones from the Stone Age show that when people switched from meat to grains, they became shorter and their teeth and joints suffered more damage.
But the hack Ancel Keys had a pet theory: that it was meat, not grains, that was bad. He made his "Seven Nation Study" where he picked some countries and ignored others in order to push his theory. For example, he ignored France, West Germany and Sweden, with high levels of meat-eating and lean waists, and instead picked Yugoslavia and Crete. Crete? They had low rates of heart disease, yes. They were studied partly during Lent, when they as Orthodox were forbidden from eating meat - drastically affecting the level of recorded meat-eating. There were also other troubles with the study, such as only looking at twelve men on the island.
Ancel Keys was sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, who had just invented Crisco, the world's first vegetabilic shortening. They were pushing it on their "soaps" on the radio, shows interspersed with P&G's commercials, causing all the housewives to buy Crisco, and elevating Ancel Keys to the top of the American Heart Association. The AHA became the media's go-to source on diet, and here we are. Americans have swollen in pace with increased carb consumption, especially in the last few decades. Even though they exercise about as much as in the 1980s, so it's not a lack of exercise that is the culprit.
One thing you should look out for however is too high levels of iron. The body has difficulty getting rid of iron on its own. Women get rid of it by menstruating, but men would do well to donate blood twice a year to keep iron levels stable. Green tea and coffee also help the body remove iron, while alcohol has the opposite effect.
