Ummmmmmmmm. Tasty charred animals.
As an experiment to get my cholesterol and trigylicerides down a bit (I am not overweight, but my triglycerides have always been a bit on the high side) I once without without eating meat for four months. Toward the end of it, I went to a luncheon where prime rib was served. After the meal was over and the speaker had started, but before the plates had all been cleared away I remember detecting the odor of decomposing flesh. It was quite pungent and unpleasant.
I started eating meat again the next week and haven't noticed the odor since.
But it can't be argued that being overweight increases many bad health risks, the most obvious of which is diabetes.
Chickens who eat grain make fat-and-protein-rich eggs. Does it follow that eating those eggs puts fat in our arteries?
I have discovered that a calorie is *not* a calorie is not a calorie. The body metabolizes what we eat in many ways. The bread and cereals I used to eat in the mornings would send my blood sugar jumping around, and I was famished by ten o'clock in the morning...then shortly after lunch I wanted a nap. That's all behind me. I have a princely breakfast of meat and eggs and lo-carb bread, some nuts or a salad for lunch, then a normal supper with lots of buttered green veggies (I've found I crave fresh, steamed green veggies now like I used to crave sweets) for dinner. No bread, no cookies or cake, few taters, and only small servings of fruit.
I started on Atkins, and am now trying to *stop* losing weight and learn to maintain. Never had a moment's hunger. I used to be quite the baker, but I'm going to order some lo carb baking stuff (gluten and soy flours and nut flours) and see what I can do about brownies.