Want to live longer? Cut back on red meat - CNN.com
Want to live longer? Cut back on red meat
Burger lovers beware: People who eat red meat every day have a higher risk of dying over a 10-year period -- mostly because of cardiovascular disease or cancer --than their peers who eat less red or processed meat, according to a new study of about half a million people.
Fine. But let me comment on parts of this CNN article. "This is the biggest and highest quality study like this," says Barry M. Popkin, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, which was published Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine. "They collected the diet data very carefully, and it's saying to people, 'You don't have to eat red meat every day.' "
Excuse me? It’s saying to people, “you don’t have to eat meat every day?” That's not what it’s saying to me. To me it's clearly saying, “you shouldn’t be eating meat ever."
The American Institute of Cancer Research recommends that people consume less than 18 ounces of red meat per week (the equivalent of a child-size fast-food hamburger per day) to reduce the risk for cancer…
Let’s see, the American Cancer Institute recommends less than 18 ounces per week. Do they also recommend less than, say, 10 cigarettes a day? How about recommending 0 ounces per week, political fuckheads? Somehow 17.9 ounces and less of carcinogenic shit per week has no effect on your risk for cancer. Where’s that study?
"It is important that people understand that they do not need to give up eating red meat, but should pay a little closer attention to how much they eat," says Lona Sandon, R.D., a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association and an assistant professor at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas.
“They do not need to give up eating red meat?” Of course they don’t need to. They don’t need to do a lot of things, like live longer, either. A spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association? They mean the American Neanderthal Nutrition Association. A shill for the meat and dairy industry. A cow knows more about nutrition than a dietician
"What we need to keep in mind about this study is that it does not prove that red meat causes increased death; it simply shows an association," she says.
Is this Sara Palin with a name change and a new career?
“What we need to keep in mind about this study is that it does not prove that playing Russian Roulette causes increased death; it simply shows an association,” she says.
In other meat news:
Eating less meat could cut climate costs
Eating less meat could cut climate costs - environment - 10 February 2009 - New Scientist
Cutting back on beefburgers and bacon could wipe $20 trillion off the cost of fighting climate change. That's the dramatic conclusion of a study that totted up the economic costs of modern meat-heavy diets.
Millions of tonnes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would also be saved every year due to reduced emissions from farms.
These impacts would lessen the need for expensive carbon-saving technologies, such as "clean coal" power plants, and so save huge sums.
Ok, good study. By the way, there’s no such thing as “clean coal.” That’s a complete and total fraud. Obama is so wrong on this issue. I’m sure that he was merely misled. I’m sure with the best of intentions he thinks he’s doing the right thing, but once again, he’s being played by the supposed experts.
Want to live longer? Cut back on red meat
Burger lovers beware: People who eat red meat every day have a higher risk of dying over a 10-year period -- mostly because of cardiovascular disease or cancer --than their peers who eat less red or processed meat, according to a new study of about half a million people.
Fine. But let me comment on parts of this CNN article. "This is the biggest and highest quality study like this," says Barry M. Popkin, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, which was published Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine. "They collected the diet data very carefully, and it's saying to people, 'You don't have to eat red meat every day.' "
Excuse me? It’s saying to people, “you don’t have to eat meat every day?” That's not what it’s saying to me. To me it's clearly saying, “you shouldn’t be eating meat ever."
The American Institute of Cancer Research recommends that people consume less than 18 ounces of red meat per week (the equivalent of a child-size fast-food hamburger per day) to reduce the risk for cancer…
Let’s see, the American Cancer Institute recommends less than 18 ounces per week. Do they also recommend less than, say, 10 cigarettes a day? How about recommending 0 ounces per week, political fuckheads? Somehow 17.9 ounces and less of carcinogenic shit per week has no effect on your risk for cancer. Where’s that study?
"It is important that people understand that they do not need to give up eating red meat, but should pay a little closer attention to how much they eat," says Lona Sandon, R.D., a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association and an assistant professor at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas.
“They do not need to give up eating red meat?” Of course they don’t need to. They don’t need to do a lot of things, like live longer, either. A spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association? They mean the American Neanderthal Nutrition Association. A shill for the meat and dairy industry. A cow knows more about nutrition than a dietician
"What we need to keep in mind about this study is that it does not prove that red meat causes increased death; it simply shows an association," she says.
Is this Sara Palin with a name change and a new career?
“What we need to keep in mind about this study is that it does not prove that playing Russian Roulette causes increased death; it simply shows an association,” she says.
In other meat news:
Eating less meat could cut climate costs
Eating less meat could cut climate costs - environment - 10 February 2009 - New Scientist
Cutting back on beefburgers and bacon could wipe $20 trillion off the cost of fighting climate change. That's the dramatic conclusion of a study that totted up the economic costs of modern meat-heavy diets.
Millions of tonnes of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would also be saved every year due to reduced emissions from farms.
These impacts would lessen the need for expensive carbon-saving technologies, such as "clean coal" power plants, and so save huge sums.
Ok, good study. By the way, there’s no such thing as “clean coal.” That’s a complete and total fraud. Obama is so wrong on this issue. I’m sure that he was merely misled. I’m sure with the best of intentions he thinks he’s doing the right thing, but once again, he’s being played by the supposed experts.
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but its not.. just gotta get that same mentality back
