Posted on 02/25/2022 7:52:29 AM PST by Red Badger
A team of scientists from Australia, Italy, Poland and Switzerland has examined the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level based on ecological data published by the United Nations agencies.
“Life expectancy at birth is the measure synthetically describing mortality in a population,” said lead author Dr. Wenpeng You, a researcher at the University of Adelaide and FAPAB Research Center, and colleagues.
“It is estimated that 20-30% of human life expectancy is determined by genetic factors, and 70-80% is determined by environmental factors.”
“Life expectancy at 5 years of age is similarly influenced by genetic factors, while it excludes neonatal, infant and early childhood mortality that depends heavily on environmental factors, especially hygiene and infection controls.”
“The effects of meat eating on human health have been debated in nutrition and diet research for a long time,” they added.
“Over the last 50 years, although the associations between meat eating and illness are circumstantial and controversial to some extent, they have prompted the spread of vegetarianism and veganism, based on the assumption that non-meat diets provide more health benefits than diets that include meat.”
“Moreover, it has been argued that vegetarianism and veganism form a part of ‘trendy’ Western consumerist lifestyles — only accessible to privileged ‘white’ people.”
“Vegetarianism that has been prevalent in Western countries has been subject to prejudice, low self-esteem, and low psychological adjustment.”
“To date, there has been prevailing research stating that vegetarians tend to have greater life expectancy compared with non-vegetarians in some populations. However, lack of population representativeness and failure to remove the influence of lifestyle in these studies have been heavily criticized.”
“Our population-based study, using data collected by the United Nations and its agencies, tests the hypothesis that, worldwide, populations with more meat consumption have greater life expectancies.”
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it’s not MEAT that’s the problem.
It’s PROCESSED MEAT. (Which is unfortunately the norm in the USA)
The researchers found that the consumption of energy from carbohydrate crops (grains and tubers) does not lead to greater life expectancy, and that total meat consumption correlates to greater life expectancy, independent of the competing effects of total calories intake, economic affluence, urban advantages, and obesity.
“Humans have adapted to meat-eating from the perspective of their more than two million years evolution,” said Professor Maciej Henneberg, a researcher at the University of Adelaide and the University of Zürich.
SO EAT ALL YOU WANT!!!!!...........
Technically all meat is processed unless you’re buying and butchering your own meat. I think you mean stuff like sausage, bacon, etc. Cheap meat is easier to acquire than choice cuts, and for the price, you better know how to cook those cuts or you’re just throwing away your hard earned dough.
I’m happy to see some studies reinforcing that the human body is not meant to live off of vegetables and grains alone. We are omnivores.
Meat Ping!.............
Life without meat would be pretty drab.
And life without bacon? That would be like living in the dark.
We were carnivores before we were omnivores.........
Arby’s Meat Mountain
https://drmarbys.com/secret-menu/the-meat-mountain-sandwich/
Remember to loudly enjoy if in the presence of vegans.
Life expectancy is also affected by motorcycles.
I plan to grill and consumpt some meat this weekend.
Take away is simply that meat is GOOD for you
Agreed. Our digestive systems from our teeth to our intestines all indicate we are built to consume meat.
That’s right bacon is bad so is salami.
Get real
The researchers found that the consumption of energy from carbohydrate crops (grains and tubers) does not lead to greater life expectancy, and that total meat consumption correlates to greater life expectancy, independent of the competing effects of total calories intake, economic affluence, urban advantages, and obesity.
Bottom line takeaway:
People for Eating Tasty Animals
I eat both. I guess I mean HORMONED out meat?
I try to get things free-range eggs and stuff like that.
In it, the author says that we are not cows. We are not evolved to eat grass or grass seeds, which is what wheat, barley, rye and cereal grains are........
consumpt some for me! My wife is on a veggie kick................
Looks like a good book! Thanks!
Yes, my motorcycles make me feel more alive!................
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