Oct. 1, 2019
Public health officials for years have urged Americans to limit consumption of red meat and processed meats because of concerns that these foods are linked to heart disease, cancer and other ills.
But on Monday, in a remarkable turnabout, an international collaboration of researchers produced a series of analyses concluding that the advice, a bedrock of almost all dietary guidelines, is not backed by good scientific evidence.
If there are health benefits from eating less beef and pork, they are small, the researchers concluded. Indeed, the advantages are so faint that they can be discerned only when looking at large populations, the scientists said, and are not sufficient to tell individuals to change their meat-eating habits.
“The certainty of evidence for these risk reductions was low to very low,” said Bradley Johnston, an epidemiologist at Dalhousie University in Canada and leader of the group publishing the new research in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The new analyses are among the largest such evaluations ever attempted and may influence future dietary recommendations. In many ways, they raise uncomfortable questions about dietary advice and nutritional research, and what sort of standards these studies should be held to.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/health/red-meat-heart-cancer.html
This happens all the time. Every decade, "experts" swear up and down that a certain food will KILL YOU DEAD if you eat it.....only to reverse course 20 years or so later.
In the 70s, it was butter (hence, they invented margarine....which they now say is even worse).
In the 80s, it was eggs
In the 90s, it was red meat.
In the 2000s, it was any kind of saturated fat.
So, we're right on schedule for a reversal. And, I just heard that these un-meat burgers, that Burger King and McDonalds are peddling, are loaded with the very thing that was taboo last decade....SATURATED FAT!!!
Now, MCT oil is back in style. I hadn't heard of it since the days of John Parillo in the late 80s and early 90s. It was part of his prescription of feeding certain bodybuilders up to 10,000 calories per day, to help them pile on mass. But, MCT comes from coconut oil.....WHICH WAS A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM ARSENIC, in days gone by. Theaters stopped using it to make popcorn, for health reasons of course. Now it's all the rage again.
