From: Jed Rothwell
blaze spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: Second, cooked red meat is pretty bad for you.. I doubt that it is bad for you in moderation. People have been eating it for hundreds of thousands of years. There are past statistical studies, which are often warped by failing to exclude the lifestyle effects of smoking and alcohol, which early death is correlated with meat-eating more so than other diets. Once these high risk factors are eliminated, eating red meat is still bad, but not quite as bad. Smoking is by far the worst statistical factor in life expectancy no matter what you eat - and vegans are not quite the healthiest of all the possibilities. The one reliable study without statistical bias - done by the Harvard School of Public Health revealed that consumption of red meat is clearly correlated with a higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease, cancer and metabolic diseases. However, in a surprise - the risk is actually lower by switching to poultry as opposed to going to vegetables or fish - but best of all is . err. nuts! It was found that the risk of death is lowered when red meat is replaced by fish (by 7%), poultry (by 14%), nuts (by 19%), vegetables (by 10%) and cereals (by 14%). So only the "nutty vegans" can feel statistically superior and many of them consume too much sugar . and the human adaptation to nuts (which are generally high in fat) is probably due, in a scientific sense - to a million years of evolution in which the easiest protein to gather store and consume over 4 seasons - was nuts. The findings are published in the Archives of Internal Medicine - the journal of the American Medical Association.
