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#RedMeat for Your #Heart: 500g/Week = Nothing but Healthy for Myocardium and Arteries if it's Lean + Unprocessed

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This is the degree of processing that's tolerable ;-) Fat, ground, burnt, and adulterated with steroids, antibiotics, nitrates, sulfites, and chemical preservatives - that's how the average Westerner "likes" his meat ('cause it's cheap, you know). No wonder that the majority of epidemiological studies (you know that's the branch of science, where people invent explanations for observations) "shows": red meat kills! As a SuppVersity  reader, you know from previous articles that experimental evidence suggests otherwise... at least for lean, properly prepared meats from appropriately reared animals (those are the animals that don't make taking extra steroids and antibiotics obsolete). Learn more about meat at the SuppVersity You May Eat Pork, too! Body Fat > Meat for CVD Meat & Prostate Cancer? Meat - Is cooking the problem Meat Packaging = Problem? Grass-Fed Pork? Is it Worth it? With the publication of ...
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Red Light for Red/Processed Meat Actually a Red Light for Obesity? Body Fat Mediates Link of Meat Intake & Health

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Mediation analysis suggests: It's not the amount of Cantonese Roast Pork Belly ( recipe ) you eat that increases the level of inflammation in your body, but the belly you get if you eat too much of it or non-red/processed meat foods. You will be aware of the fact that even the best epidemiological study cannot account for all correlations; correlations that mess with the results of the studies; correlations like the one between generally healthier lifestyles and the consumption of a vegetarian diet, which have been thwarting the results of epidemiological studies on the effects of meat intake on our health for decades. To get to the bottom of one of these spurious correlations, scientists from the University of Hawaii Cancer Center (Chai 2017), examined the associations of dietary red and processed meat intake with serum levels of CRP, TNF-a, IL-6, leptin, and adiponectin among control participants in 2 nested case–control studies of cancer in the Multiethnic Cohort. Looki...
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Minimally Processed and Eaten as Part of a Mediterranean-Style Diet, Red Meat Augments MED's Heart Health Benefits

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The extra reduction in diastolic blood pressure may translate to a significantly reduced stroke risk. Especially in younger people, a few mmHg can make a tenfold difference in their risk of stroke. If you follow the mainstream media you will get the impression that eating red meat was worse for your heart than drinking or smoking. In fact, however, the experimental evidence from decently controlled human studies like the latest paper by scientists from the Purdue University  and the  University of Texas Medical Branch , indicate that red meat - if it's still meat and not bought in processed food, i.e. salami, sausages, wurst, etc. is completely harmless, if not beneficial to your heart health. Beneficial? Yes, you read that right: As Lauren E O’Connor's randomized investigator-blinded crossover study shows, adding 70g of beef/pork to a Mediterranean diet has no effect on the beneficial effects of the MED on selected markers of cardiovascular health, it even augmented the...
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Fresh (!) Red Meat Acquitted - Overgeneralized Accusations that Red Meat Consumption Triggers Cancer Overlooks Influence of Processing & Other Confounding Factors

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I guess if someone finally dared to do this study, there would be a linear or exponential association between the number of processing steps red meat has undergone and the increase in cancer risk from regular consumption. Stay away from cheap bacon, sausages & co. The potential relationship between red meat consumption and colorectal cancer (CRC) has been the subject of scientific debate. In fact, you will remember that I have addressed the issue repeatedly and in various articles. If you read all or at least some of the articles you will also be aware of the fact that the evidence against red meat is of observational nature and has a high degree of resulting uncertainty. Dominik D. Alexander's and his colleagues's objective was thus to conduct a systematic quantitative assessment of the epidemiologic literature. Specifically, they updated and expanded their previous meta-analysis by integrating data from new prospective cohort studies and conducting a broader evaluat...
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Red Meat & Breast Cancer: Dietary Protein Sources in Early Adulthood and Breast Cancer Incidence | 22% Risk Increase for Red Meat Eaters, Substituting Poultry Normalizes Risk

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Red (meat) breast cancer alert! It's not the first study and I am pretty sure it's not going to be the last study to link red meat and cancer, but in view of the fact that I am pretty sure that the results Maryam S Farvid and colleagues present in their latest paper in the British Journal of Medicine are going to be all over the place this week, I feel that it's worth to give you an unbiased overview of the results before you are confronted with the sensational press release celebrating the newest "Harvard science" - a source people trust, one that "propagates the truth" and one that is (ab-)used by press release writers to generate the impression that each and every word they write is true. Well the truth is that we are dealing with yet another prospective epidemiological study which does not have the power to reveal causal links between parameter (a), in this case the dietary protein sources in early adulthood and parameter (b), which is the inc...
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