Individuals who eat more red meat and processed meat appear to have a modestly increased risk of death from all causes and also from cancer or heart disease over a 10-year period, according to a report in the March 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In contrast, a higher intake of white meat appeared to be associated with a slightly decreased risk for overall death and cancer death.
“Meat intake varies substantially around the world, but the impact of consuming higher levels of meat in relation to chronic disease mortality [death] is ambiguous,” the authors write as background information in the article.
Rashmi Sinha, Ph.D., and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Md., assessed the association between meat intake and risk of death among more than 500,000 individuals who were part of the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study. Participants, who were between 50 and 71 years old when the study began in 1995, provided demographic information and completed a food frequency questionnaire to estimate their intake of white, red and processed meats. They were then followed for 10 years through Social Security Administration Death Master File and National Death Index databases.
I’m fairly certain this “study” isn’t worth the paper they wasted on it.
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Here’s an exercise: try to find a study by someone with an Indian name which does not condemn the eating of red meat. “Exercise in futility”, I should have said.
Did they fill out the “food frequency questionnaire” every year? People do tend to change their diet based on health and taste. Changes in diet can happen for a variety of reasons.
Did they allow for other factors such as smoking and drinking? Few smokers are Vegan. Most like big, thick steaks dripping with juices. And dessert, in one restaurant the chocolate cake was so rich I’m sure 1 piece added 10 pounds.
Since the National Cancer Institute has long advocated reducing red meat consumption, I’d say Bill was right as to what the “study” is worth.
Yep, the articles discussing the studies always say that. The challenge stands.
No, but even without smoking a vegan lifestyle doesn’t always keep you healthy. Or even alive.
Euell Gibbons. Died at 64,His death was the result of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, a complication from Marfan syndrome. Healthy diet didn’t help with the Marfans.
Apparently Euell was also a stalker of sorts.
Gee, y’mean they get more than one to a customer?
(Ducks, runs)
Astronomer Jayant Narlikar’s studies of cosmology do not even mention red meat.
There so many gag lines about red meat and Barney Frank but I shall refrain
Now that makes me gag.