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 fish day!
If you look at the eyes of Indians that are strict vegetarians their eyes look too deep in their skull and the tissue around them always seem bruised and puffy. The children of Indians raised in the United States seem to have different facial features probably due to a totally different diet during development.
You are what you eat.
Yes, we don’t have four stomachs........................
The climatistas won’t like that one bit. The dreaded animal flatulence causes global warming AND the dreaded meat-eating people will live longer causing even more global warming. Could there be a worse outcome for the climate kooks?
When I was in school in the 60’s in Mississippi, we had fish (sticks) every Friday for lunch.
There wasn’t a Catholic church anywhere near our town for 30 miles or more.....................
Been eating only meat for 1320 consecutive days. Every aspect of my life has been & continues to be immensely improved by eating this way.
Eating this way has led directly to my experiencing effortless daily happiness every day of my life!
Eat it without guilt!..................
I find that beef short rib meat sold boneless is usually just as good as top sirloin and much cheaper. I often use it to make excellent fajitas and burritos.
Almost every meal includes meat.
ENJOY!......................
There’s a place for all of the Lord’s creatures.
Next to the mashed potatoes.
That is an interesting observation and one I’ve noticed with the many Indian people I’ve worked with here in California. I never thought about the differences you point out between immigrants and those born and raised in the USA and what might cause them.
Ditto!
I check the 10-day weather forecast regularly so I can plan my life LOL.
I wonder if any FReepers are bike riders in the greater Louisville area?
Which explains why Bill Gates doesn’t want us eating meat.
I ditched wheat completely last October, and I’m blown away at the difference. If I have anything with even a little wheat in it, I know it shortly thereafter.
I think what’s amazing to me is how so many people go through life feeling bloated or inflamed and just accept it. Try purging your diet of wheat for a month and see how you feel. You may not want to go back after you feel how your body responds to it.
One purpose of this research is to assess changes in body proportion between Maya growing up in the US and Maya growing up in Guatemala. Height and sitting height of 6–12-year-old boys and girls (n=360) were measured and the sitting height ratio [sitting height/height]×100, a measure of proportion, was calculated. These data are compared with a sample of Maya of the same ages living in Guatemala and measured in 1998 (n=1297). Maya-American children are currently 10.24 cm taller, on average, and have a significantly lower sitting height ratio, (i.e. relatively longer legs, averaging 7.02 cm longer) than the Guatemala Maya. Maya-American children have body proportions more like those of white children in the US than like Maya children in Guatemala. Improvements in the environment for growth, in terms of nutrition and health, seem to explain both the trends in greater stature and relatively longer legs for the Maya-Americans.
Grow your own!
‘Weber’ has one more month of La Vida Loca before he goes to the spa. ;)
I had a good friend that convinced me to go Vegetarian. So, I did for a number of years.
When I started eating meat again, it took a number of tries before my body could process it, so to speak. Man, I got really sick a couple of times!
But, I’m a fully recovered carnivore once again.
Note to self: Always ignore advice from Kellie, LOL!
I like beef and have found beef shank is very affordable and delicious when slow cooked.
I braise them like short ribs but they are about half the price.
I roast them on a sheet pan at 425F for 15-20 minutes each side, then transfer them and the drippings to a baking dish and cover with stock, then back in the oven for three hours at 300.
When done, I remove the bones, then let everything solidify in the fridge. To serve, I scoop out a portion and cube up the meat, fat, and the gelatin. I put that into a large cup, add water, then heat in the microwave.
I like motorcycles! and red haired girls with green eyes!
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