high animal protein diet apparently not healthy

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  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
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    The story is in today's Telegraph as well.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10676877/High-protein-diet-as-bad-for-health-as-smoking.html

    Just because it makes the British press, does not mean diddly squat. It is an article, not a research paper.
    Goodness me.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,273 Member
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    Because it's a peer reviewed article...
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3466124/#!po=0.270270
    Mental illness and vegetarian/ vegan lifestyle...
    Snort
    Now the vegans will tout the correlation/causation argument...
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
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    Wait, smoking meat is harmful?
  • GummyHuman
    GummyHuman Posts: 193 Member
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    LOL :bigsmile:
  • FP4HSharon
    FP4HSharon Posts: 664 Member
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    The research indicated that high protein diets were unhealthy for people younger than 66, but healthier for people 66 & older. What I didn't see was whether they factored in how much exercise someone did, because obviously someone who works out needs more protein than someone who doesn't. Most experts recommend 20-30%, so to me, I wouldn't consider 20% a "high" protein diet, but an average diet.
  • lamps1303
    lamps1303 Posts: 432 Member
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    I posted this exact article this morning - purely to highlight how rediculous it sounds! The media love to scare people into thinking certain things cause cancer - eventually they will say breathing or exercising too much will cause cancer?!?!!

    Saw something before about how cookies, doughnuts, red meat, etc. cause cancer, and if you don't want cancer you should eat tomatoes and brocolli. I love cookies. I love doughnuts. I love red meat. I don't intend in stopping eating them!!

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