Red meat linked to cancer?

i will always eat red meat.

Almost everything is linked to cancer these days...

Everything is linked to Cancer. I stopped buying red meat a few years back, but I occasional eat it when out with a friends or family.

I'd say most studies are probably working with biased data. Red meat has been the "bad" meat for a while now. People that shy away from red meat are statistically more likely in all probability to also be more health and fitness conscience.

Most studies end up having similar problems, cause and effect are almost impossible to discern if the thing that causes the effect does not do so at the moment of consumption. The further effect gets away from cause the more variables get introduced and most studies do not do much to eliminate those new variables as potential causes in and of themselves.

If I remember this study correctly, the numbers looked scary the way they stated them, but when broken down, the risk, if it is causation and not correlation, was a tiny fraction of a percent higher than for a non meat eater.

But then again, now that some farmers can't afford corn and are feeding their cows chocolate sprinkles and cookies, who knows what will happen?

If nothing else, wouldn't surprise me to see them breed some extra-super strain of e coli from that.

The last study I read about on this showed that processed red meat was the culprit and unprocessed red meat didn't have the same effect.

So I'd say it's not the actual meat that's the issue (assuming there really is a causal link, which there might not be), but something that happens to it during processing. And it's not the processing itself - mechanical processing is unlikely to be the cause... probably it's some ingredient added in some methods of processing or preserving these meats. And it's not likely to be cooking either seeing as humans have eaten cooked meat for over a million years. So IMO this is something that should be researched further, because if this is what's happening then whatever ingredient it is causing the issue needs to not be used anymore.

Anyway, there have been a few studies linking processed meats to health issues as far as I'm aware, but not enough to prove cause and effect. The more recent ones separating processed meats from minimally processed red meats are more interesting, as now the correlation only exists with the processed meats, and the fact that it's isolating a specific factor is indeed suggestive of the need for further research.

The last study I read about on this showed that processed red meat was the culprit and unprocessed red meat didn't have the same effect.

So I'd say it's not the actual meat that's the issue (assuming there really is a causal link, which there might not be), but something that happens to it during processing. And it's not the processing itself - mechanical processing is unlikely to be the cause... probably it's some ingredient added in some methods of processing or preserving these meats. And it's not likely to be cooking either seeing as humans have eaten cooked meat for over a million years. So IMO this is something that should be researched further, because if this is what's happening then whatever ingredient it is causing the issue needs to not be used anymore.

Anyway, there have been a few studies linking processed meats to health issues as far as I'm aware, but not enough to prove cause and effect. The more recent ones separating processed meats from minimally processed red meats are more interesting, as now the correlation only exists with the processed meats, and the fact that it's isolating a specific factor is indeed suggestive of the need for further research.

That wouldn't surprise me at all. The only meat I ever ate that I regret for the sake of my health was bacon, luncheon meat, and hot dogs.

They finally managed to link broccoli to cancer (gmo's, pesticides, etc) so I throw up my hands and throw red meat in the pot, along with anything else that tastes good and isn't going to outright reverse what I've been doing.