Red meat can kill!!!!

RachelsReboot

It's true! I had a run in with a bull once...almost didn't make it out of that barn alive!

slkehl

We talked about some of the recent studies on red meat in my clinical nutrition class. Yes, red meat tends to be high in fat and should be avoided if you're at risk for diseases related to metabolic syndrome, but the results are way overblown.

For example, the study linking colon cancer and red meat, saying that eating red mean more than 5x a week increases risk for colon cancer. It examines an enzyme called cytochrome p450 that affects the metabolism in meat. If you actually read the study, for normal individuals and those with one slight gene change, there was a very slight increase in risk with meat consumption over 5x a week. However, for individuals with multiple gene changes, there was a huge increase in risk! These people, who make up only 4% of the population, skew the results and make the risk seem much much higher than it actually is.