Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research

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[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

FTA:

Studies have been linking red meat consumption to health problems like heart disease, stroke, and cancer for years.

We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease.

Interesting wording. They do not claim no association between red meat and these diseases, but they want to minimize the studies that do. I guess these people are fact checkers.

If in doubt, here is my advice: eat fish. Fish from clean waters is the healthiest food. It was the choice of food served by Jesus when he fed thousands of people: fish and bread. He did not charge them money, either.

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fish is great, but then you've got to worry about mercury. Some people have had extremely high mercury levels from eating a lot of fish.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We all heard about the scary warnings about mercury, but who do you know has died from mercury poisoning? I can think of people I have personally known that have died of cancer and heart attacks but cannot name one that has died from mercury poisoning. Sometimes I wonder if mercury poisoning was just a propaganda campaign to get people to abandon the healthiest foods and just get in their car and order fast food in the drive-thru.

For fish to deserve the title of healthiest food, it should be taken from clean water. Red meat could be eaten in moderation and still be healthy, if obtained from healthy animals. It is probably just as challenging to obtain red meat from healthy animals as it is to obtain healthy fish.