Red meat mortality study leaves many carnivores unfazed
March 18, 2012 at 6:36 pm in Grand Forks Herald
A new study released by the Harvard School of Public Health found that eating red meat any amount and any type appears to significantly increase the risk of premature death. Continue Reading
The simple fact it comes from Harvard makes it a lie…
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Yeah, can’t trust what people from America’s most respected university say. I find it hard to understand the reasons for the anti-intellectual bent of posters here. On one hand you are probably really glad to be on the receiving end of a medical advance that cures your cancer, which was based on research done at that awful place, Harvard.
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Please…everyday it’s something else! I remember when Bazooka bubblegum was a health threat and cranberries caused cancer…anything we eat is a danger to our health if it’s not done in MODERATION….isn’t a bunch of broccoli eaten to excess liable to cause so much gas that you can blow an intestine??….concentrate on pesticide/herbicide laden food and the danger of ecoli in imported food(as well as our own) and leave my occasional rib-eye/double cheeseburger with all it’s fat alone!!
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Don’t forget coffee….For a few years there caffinated coffee was much like this report on meat…If you drank it on a daily bases it was like having one foot on a banna peel and the other over your grave……Then a few years ago low and behold but new studies came out telling us that coffee was actually good for us……
What I said before pretty much is the same as the people in the article…..I never did plan to live forever, and while I’m here I’d like to enjoy my meals while I’m young enough to do so. I know a few people 80+ who just don’t like a lot of the same foods anymore…Some of that is meat….So I’ll enjoy it now, and if I don’t make it that old….Then at least I enjoyed life while I was doing it…
One last thought…..How many other factors like life style and exercise were brought into account in the study? i mean it seems like a stretch to take groups of people devided by their food choices and claim that one group did better than the other when in fact meat was probably just one of the persons life choices that brought them to an earlier death than the other group
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I would like to know who funded the research. This article along with the findings of the so called survet have a motive from special interest groups. You can eat almost anything you want as long as you eat it in moderation and excercise. I am going to eat a nice juicy fat cheesburger with french fries for lunch because I get my exercise in and eat a balanced diet.
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I had biscuits with sausage gravy for breakfast this morning. I will bite anyone that tries to take that away from me. The stress caused by trying to live the perfect life is probably more harmful to a person.
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Heck, I want to eat that picture!
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from the wording in the article it sounds like eating a single hamburger is going to kill you, as it says “any amount and any type”. The only way to make that claim is if a significant portion of his study population didn’t eat a single bit of red meat over the 20 year test period. It’s a little hard to critique a research paper from just what’s stated in the media, but this one really seems twisted. This is one of those press releases that lead people to distrust all scientific research.
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This study is nothing new. Researchers have been telling us to eat more fish and chicken plus more vegetables for years now. People are doing that actually. The problem I see with this report is that it sounds like a person is going to drop dead if they have a cheeseburger. This is bad journalism.
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When did pork being the ‘other white meat’ change? Getting too hard to keep up with all the ‘bad for ya’ stuff anymore.
I was fed so much beef when I was a kid, I can pretty much take it or leave it these days. Sure, a good grilled steak is special, but “I can eat more chicken any man ever seen!”.
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