Geezer is contemplating the peculiar satisfaction of writing the headline “Red Meat Kills,” even while he knows that the latest research finds only “a modest increase in the overall mortality” of meat eaters when compared with people who don’t eat meat. Why quibble over words? Or science.
Web MD reports on a new study, conducted at the National Cancer Institute and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, that followed, for ten years, more than 500,000 men and women between the ages
of 50 and 71 who provided detailed
information about their food intake. The researchers found that men in the group with the
highest intake of red meat had a 31 percent higher overall risk of dying
from cancer and/or heart disease during the study period than did those in the lowest intake red meat
group. They found that women with the highest intake group of red meat had a 50 percent higher
risk of dying due to heart disease.
Put another way, Web MD reports, 11 percent of all deaths in men and 16 percent of deaths in women could have been
prevented if participants cut their red meat consumption to that eaten
by the lowest intake group. Heart disease deaths could have been
decreased by 11 percent in men and 21 percent in women by limiting red meat intake to
the amount eaten by the lowest intake group.For processed
meat, the highest intakes were associated with a 16 percent overall increased
risk of dying in men and 25 percent increased risk in women.
Read more in Web MD.
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Sunday, June 1, 2025
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT DOESN’T KILL YOU? WE LIVE IN A CULTURE OF PARANOIA–IF YOU’RE BAD, YOU DIE! BS, WE ALL DIE–MOST OF US DIE FROM THE BORDOM OF LISTENING TO THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS.
Seems what they say to eat/not eat changes with time.
My system is eat anything thats good in small quantities.
We just eat to much.
I have more of a fear of trying to live and eat right as researchers suggest. Trying to live to a ripe old age, only to have something preposterous happen like an airplane crashing on my head or being killed by a meteorite. Therefore, I shall eat my steaks and hamburgers and take my chances. I feel it would be safer.
if they stop putting all the extra chemicals in the red meat maybe we would be fine
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal desease