Red meat is GOOD for you! How Americans got it wrong...
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Hypsibius
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Great article: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-americans-used-to-eat/371895/
"About one fifth of the U.S. population was over 50 years old in 1900. This number would seem to refute the familiar argument that people formerly didn’t live long enough for heart disease to emerge as an observable problem." "Ironically—or perhaps tellingly—the heart disease “epidemic” began after a period of exceptionally reduced meat eating."
And this gem: "Charles Dickens, when he visited [America], wrote that “no breakfast was breakfast” without a T-bone steak."
Friends: Eat your red meat guilt-free as part of a delicious whole foods diet -- #CleanEating 101. I suspect this global food sickness is due to the modern introduction of processed junk and absurd amounts of added sugar.
I'll just leave this here:
"About one fifth of the U.S. population was over 50 years old in 1900. This number would seem to refute the familiar argument that people formerly didn’t live long enough for heart disease to emerge as an observable problem." "Ironically—or perhaps tellingly—the heart disease “epidemic” began after a period of exceptionally reduced meat eating."
And this gem: "Charles Dickens, when he visited [America], wrote that “no breakfast was breakfast” without a T-bone steak."
Friends: Eat your red meat guilt-free as part of a delicious whole foods diet -- #CleanEating 101. I suspect this global food sickness is due to the modern introduction of processed junk and absurd amounts of added sugar.
I'll just leave this here:
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Them pesky 'muricans trying to stifle our 32nd amendment right to free steak.0
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Now I'm salivating...0
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Mmmm meat.0
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Some of us don't have the resources to eat steak for breakfast every day.0
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midwesterner85 wrote: »Some of us don't have the resources to eat steak for breakfast every day.
Little known* fact People say that Dickens was paid by the word for his writings. He was actually paid by the t-bone.
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meat, grains, corn, soybeans, and legumes are GREAT "calorie reservoirs". These same foods cease to be as important in a situation of overabundant calories available.
ANYTHING that gives you calories is "healthy" in a situation with an otherwise lack of calories.
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I think the heart disease up tic coincides well a more sedentary lifestyle and the availability of cheap high fat foods.0
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midwesterner85 wrote: »Some of us don't have the resources to eat steak for breakfast every day.
Little known* fact People say that Dickens was paid by the word for his writings. He was actually paid by the t-bone.
* totally made up
You just posted it on the interwebz...so now it's true.0 -
The basic premise that we should eat like our ancestors is full of idealistic poppycock.
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LOL
"NINA TEICHOLZ"
Quacks gonna quack
"The justification for this idea, that our ancestors lived mainly on fruits, vegetables, and grains, comes mainly from the USDA “food disappearance data.” The “disappearance” of food is an approximation of supply; most of it is probably being eaten, but much is wasted, too. Experts therefore acknowledge that the disappearance numbers are merely rough estimates of consumption."
Then uses food disappearance data to support her points later
"About 175 pounds of meat per person per year—compared to the roughly 100 pounds of meat per year that an average adult American eats today. And of that 100 pounds of meat, about half is poultry—chicken and turkey—whereas until the mid-20th century, chicken was considered a luxury meat, on the menu only for special occasions (chickens were valued mainly for their eggs)."
Correlations are bad, unless they support my POV
"Ironically—or perhaps tellingly—the heart disease “epidemic” began after a period of exceptionally reduced meat eating. In other words, meat eating went down just before coronary disease took off."
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ceoverturf wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »Some of us don't have the resources to eat steak for breakfast every day.
Little known* fact People say that Dickens was paid by the word for his writings. He was actually paid by the t-bone.
* totally made up
You just posted it on the interwebz...so now it's true.
"People say that Dickens was paid by the word for his writings. He was actually paid by the t-bone."
-jemhh
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That's ok.
I've never listened to Muricans to begin with.0 -
midwesterner85 wrote: »Some of us don't have the resources to eat steak for breakfast every day.
Little known* fact People say that Dickens was paid by the word for his writings. He was actually paid by the t-bone.
* totally made up
Now I need to figure out how to get paid in steak.
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It's not perfect, but still an interested read. Also I have a suspicion that all the fear of red meat is overstated and has more to do with unhealthy eating / lack of exercise and nutritional balance than it does red meat.
Note: I say that with absolutely zero background in nutritional science, or study in anything related to biology-related fields, and having read a total of 0 peer reviewed articles on the topic. The post is mostly for fun / discussion of the article
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But those cows are farting a hole in the ozone.
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SoDamnHungry wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »Some of us don't have the resources to eat steak for breakfast every day.
Little known* fact People say that Dickens was paid by the word for his writings. He was actually paid by the t-bone.
* totally made up
Now I need to figure out how to get paid in steak.
Write novels, apparently. It worked for Dickens.
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It's not perfect, but still an interested read. Also I have a suspicion that all the fear of red meat is overstated and has more to do with unhealthy eating / lack of exercise and nutritional balance than it does red meat.
Note: I say that with absolutely zero background in nutritional science, or study in anything related to biology-related fields, and having read a total of 0 peer reviewed articles on the topic. The post is mostly for fun / discussion of the article.
I say, let them eat steak!
Or, more ideally, let ME eat steak.
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Ah, Dickens' love affair with American eating habits:In his travel book, American Notes, Dickens describes Mid-Westerners at dinner as "so many fellow animals", who "strip social sacraments of everything but the mere satisfaction of natural cravings".0
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MEET OF COWE GOOOOOOOOOOOD!0
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »midwesterner85 wrote: »Some of us don't have the resources to eat steak for breakfast every day.
Little known* fact People say that Dickens was paid by the word for his writings. He was actually paid by the t-bone.
* totally made up
You just posted it on the interwebz...so now it's true.
"People say that Dickens was paid by the word for his writings. He was actually paid by the t-bone."
-jemhh
Now it's doubly true.
If it's a quote on a gif...that's 100% rock solid evidence of it's truth.
-George Washington0
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