Uh oh...another new study bashing the terrible studies that conclusions have been based on for years and years without much questioning..
“We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease. Moreover, we found no evidence of an association between unprocessed red meat and ischemic stroke or hemorrhagic stroke,” they summarized.
“The evidence for a direct vascular or heath risk from eating meat regularly is very low, to the point that there is probably no risk,” commented Dr. Steven Novella, a Yale neurologist and president of the New England Skeptical Society. “There is, however, more evidence for a health risk from eating too few vegetables. That is really the risk of a high-meat diet, those meat calories are displacing vegetable calories.”
I've learned over the years to tune out news about health/food studies.
It's not that they aren't useful cumulatively or if someone wants to do real research. Just that the media glom on to these stories, report them in simplest attention grabbing terms, and the masses turn the headline into conventional wisdom which later turns out to be b.s.
Remember when eggs were bad for you? Or red wine prevented cancer? Etc.
Better for me just to use common sense and stop demonizing or halo-izing foods.
This is not accurate. Unprocessed red meat is indeed a health risk that is dose dependent. The critical mass appears to be 100g per day. If you eat less than 100g per day on average, there is no negative association. Above that mark, there is association with unprocessed red meat as an independent risk factor for CVD and cancer.
In short, eating unprocessed red meat once or twice a week is perfectly fine. Beyond that, it is a net negative
This is not accurate. Unprocessed red meat is indeed a health risk that is dose dependent. The critical mass appears to be 100g per day. If you eat less than 100g per day on average, there is no negative association. Above that mark, there is association with unprocessed red meat as an independent risk factor for CVD and cancer.
In short, eating unprocessed red meat once or twice a week is perfectly fine. Beyond that, it is a net negative
This has no basis according to what they found. Again. You seem unwilling to accept that information and how we view things change over time.
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What they are saying is wrong. Red meat intake is independently associated with cancer and heart disease. As I said, it is dose dependent. The evidence on this is not even controversial. The occasional steak or burger is fine. If you want to eat it every day.. good luck.
I think one problem with cancer studies and reporting on it to the general public is the use of percentages. Most people are too stupid or lazy to understand what a 15% increase in cancer risk means.
In 2020 the global average for getting colorectal cancer was 19.5/100 000 or 0.0195%. Now this includes all causes, but let's pretend for the sake of argument it doesn't include eating red meat and doing so increases that statistic by 15%. Now it's 22,4/100 000 or 0.0224% or 2.9 more people per 100k who gets cancer because of eating red meat.
My point is that "15% higher risk" sounds like a lot more than an increase of 0.0029 percentage points.
The percentages presented in media doesn't give a useful sense of the true risk such as "if you eat a lot of red meat the chance you're getting this cancer this year is now 0.0224% instead of 0.0195%". Nobody would quit eating red meat over cancer concerns alone if this was the numbers presented to them.
Journalists generally suck at interpreting and putting studies into the right perspective, they don't understand much more of what they're reading than the average Joe.
Journalists generally suck at interpreting and putting studies into the right perspective, they don't understand much more of what they're reading than the average Joe.
Also, journalists / reporters are not into the whole 'red meat or not' camp, they merely looking for content that will make people buy/read magazines/newspapers in order to sell ad space. When there is no 'real' news, they come up with this shyte to just 'fill the empty space'.
Also, journalists / reporters are not into the whole 'red meat or not' camp, they merely looking for content that will make people buy/read magazines/newspapers in order to sell ad space. When there is no 'real' news, they come up with this shyte to just 'fill the empty space'.
Most of them, yeah, but some probably are just biased as well. It's easy to abuse statistics to push an agenda by interpreting the numbers in incorrect ways, I'm sure that's done deliberately rather than through sheer ignorance at least in some articles.
Most of them, yeah, but some probably are just biased as well. It's easy to abuse statistics to push an agenda by interpreting the numbers in incorrect ways, I'm sure that's done deliberately rather than through sheer ignorance at least in some articles.
I compared news stories in different newspapers and yes, there are some more 'sensational' publications that will skew the facts towards the negative to make the readers fearful. It's a known strategy especially in American media to keep easily frightened people indoors where they can be more easily manipulated to buy more consumer shyte instead of going out and enjoying the sunshine.
Look, this article or any other article isn't going to sway me to eat or not to eat more/less red meat (I eat a good amount of it), but nutrition & food related studies are notorious for "straw man" conclusions. You can literally find at least 2-3 articles that support almost any food related claim, such as "a glass of wine a day is good for you" or "why eating chocolate is good for your health". Proceed with caution I'd all I'm saying.
That “flawed science” is medical consensus from decades of epidemiological research. “Feeling great” on carnivore has more to do with removal of certain foods than beef being some superfood.
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