How much meat do you eat?

Eating lots of red or processed meat can increase your risk of:

pancreatic cancer
bowel cancer
stomach cancer.

How you cook meat may also affect your cancer risk. Cooking meat at high temperatures, such as frying or barbecuing, produces chemicals called heterocyclic amines. These can damage DNA and increase the risk of cancer

You are mad if you eat red or processed meat every day, it's simply unhealthy as is doing most things in excess.
 
bringerofdecay said:
would we? it's quite well documented that as our early ancestors became less nomadic, and becan to settle they opted for farms and grains over hunting and meat ;)
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The high levels of protein in meat allowed our stomachs to decrease in size and eventually reduce to a size that allowed us to walk on 2 feet rather than on four. If we just ate vegetation our stomachs would have stayed massive and never allowed us to become upright!
 
Samantha said:
Eating lots of red or processed meat can increase your risk of:

pancreatic cancer
bowel cancer
stomach cancer.

How you cook meat may also affect your cancer risk. Cooking meat at high temperatures, such as frying or barbecuing, produces chemicals called heterocyclic amines. These can damage DNA and increase the risk of cancer

You are mad if you eat red or processed meat every day, it's simply unhealthy as is doing most things in excess.
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You don't seem to distinguish between red and processed meat in this statement.
Surely eating some lean 5% fat beef is a lot different to eating processed hamburgers?
 
I eat meat most days of the week, infact I think I eat it everyday :eek:

Veggies have it alright nowadays though, those veggie sausages are gorgeous :p
 
I eat about 1 to 2 meals a week that contain Chicken. I rarely eat red meat. I Get all the protien I need from Pulses.

People who's base thier diet around red meat are uneducated to the harm they are doing to them selves and thier familiy. Same goes for the amount of Chicken people eat! It's all about moderation.

Scotland is the most Obese country in Europe and I am ashamed of that fact! I don't want to be categorised with fat Americans!
 
weescott said:
People who's base thier diet around red meat are uneducated to the harm they are doing to them selves and thier familiy. Same goes for the amount of Chicken people eat! It's all about moderation.
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I've said it before in this thread, but where is the evidence that eating meat causes harm?

If you can find a study where the only difference between two groups was the amount of meat eaten and that it causes problems I'll believe you, but until then I stick to my beliefs that meat is not unhealthy.

Eating meat with lots of saturated fats may be unhealthy, but meat itself is not the cause.
 
As I said. It's all about moderation. Baseing ones diet on one food group is wrong. I never said that eating meat causes harm. But, look at preservatives, additives, processed food and the evidence backing a balanced diet and you may get a different story.
 
Haircut said:
I've said it before in this thread, but where is the evidence that eating meat causes harm?
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"1 You'll live a lot longer. Vegetarians live about seven years longer, and vegans (who eat no animal products) about 15 years longer than meat eaters, according to a study from Loma Linda University. These findings are backed up by the China Health Project (the largest population study on diet and health to date), which found that Chinese people who eat the least amount of fat and animal products have the lowest risks of cancer, heart attack and other chronic degenerative diseases. And a British study that tracked 6,000 vegetarians and 5,000 meat eaters for 12 years found that vegetarians were 40 percent less likely to die from cancer during that time and 20 percent less likely to die from other diseases."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0820/is_1999_April/ai_54232138

there is loads of similar articles on the net but most meat eaters refuse to believe it as they can't be asked to make the change :D
 
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