How much meat do you eat?

Live longer if you don't eat meat? What a load of crap. We're omnivores we're designed to eat both vegetables and meat, it's the balance we need to get right. A big proportion of my family are Mediterranean base and French based, they eat a LOT of rich food, and drink a lot of wine, yet by some freak of nature all have lived past 80! OMG!!!!!!!

It's about lifestyle. I will not accept any ridiculous sensationalist and down right erroneous comments like "eating meat is wrong" "eating meat kills you" - it's complete unfounded nonsense. You may have a few small research cells that have found that it does increase risks to your health, but we are talking extreme cases here., Let's be realistic, for people with decent diets (unfortunately not really the norm in the UK :() you can throw all these "studies" out of the window and treat them with the contempt they deserve.
 
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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every thing causes cancer now though :/
 
I eat meat as often as i can, love the stuff. Anything from a sunday roast to a doner kebab.

romperstomper said:
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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,
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If i had to be a vegan for the rest of my life i wouldn't want to live 15 years longer tbh.
 
at least one meal a day, the only meat my mrs eats is chicken (kind of a fake vegetarian), so i tend to eat the same meals as her, but manage to ram bacon/ham into some of my meals

if i'm at home with my parents, then at least two meals a day, but that's on a farm :)
 
OT but FFS it's lunch and dinner, not dinner and tea :mad: Tea is something you drink! :)


I eat meat every day for dinner, and most days in the form of a sandwich or a cooked meal for lunch
 
romperstomper said:
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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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But that doesn't account for the other difference that have already been mentioned in this thread, such as the fact that vegetarians are people who have made a conscious choice about their diet and so are likely to eat better than the average population anyway.

Just looking at vegetarians to non-vegetarians doesn't show you the other differences. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the vegetarians consumed less alcohol and smoked less than the non-vegetarians, who's to say this isn't the reason they live longer?
Without knowing these factors the study is worthless.
 
Anti-oxidants found in fruit, veg and dark chocolate are good at preventing cancer and also muscle break down by tackling the naughty free radicals which destroy cells. Apparently cancer and muscle break down are a destruction of cells, so its not surprising that the medicine is the same.
 
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I eat meat everyday.

In fact I find meals not containing meat to be totally unsatisfying.

I cannot remember that last time I had an evening meal which didn't contain some meat.
 
romperstomper said:
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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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I assume you meant to say arsed, but its not that we don't want to put the effort in, we just think that it tastes nice, and worth the risk, i guess all the vegetarians are just scared of living it up a little:rolleyes:

Oh And I've just ate nearly half a pig in bacon and sausages for breakfast :D

God I love bacon.
 
Tefal - why did you say "worth the risk"? There is no risk to eating red meat it's complete tripe. And it's just that we think it's nice, it's packed with lots of vital and important nutrients.
 
Freefaller said:
Tefal - why did you say "worth the risk"? There is no risk to eating red meat it's complete tripe. And it's just that we think it's nice, it's packed with lots of vital and important nutrients.
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Well I'm vaguely aware that eating excessive red meat has a heart risk and that's been known for ages. But it was mainly in response to his post i cut some to save space, I don't really know or care oif meat is bad for me but it almost certainly will be one with that raises my risk of cancer as everything else does :/
 
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