Fire up the grill, folks -- eating bugs has been officially canceled!
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Fire up the grill, folks -- eating bugs has been officially canceled!
Reuters Top News ✔ @Reuters Steak is back on the menu, if a new review of risks of red meat is to be believed. More here: reut.rs/2o0yxUL
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From The New York Times, "Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice," subheadline, "The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings “erode public trust,” critics said.": 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 said. 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 and leader of the group publishing the new research in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The new analyses are among the largest nutrition 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..........
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I'm always saying just wait 20 years and health pundits will reverse themselves on almost everything. They'll never call smoking healthy, but doctors used to recommend it :-s