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Meat = Smoking?

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Another day, another over-hyped scaremongering study in the news. The latest is this: Eating a diet heavy on meat and cheese may be as harmful to you as smoking a cigarette, researchers claim. A new study, published in Cell Metabolism on March 4, shows that middle-aged people who eat a diet high in animal proteins from milk, meat and cheese are more likely to die of cancer than someone who eats a low-protein diet. The research also showed the people who ate lots of meat and dairy were more likely to die at an earlier age.The actual study is here. Among the most obvious problems:1. No good information on what people actually ate. The 6,381 people in the study were given a survey ONCE asking them about what they ate in the previous 24 hours...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 07, 2014 (boomark / email).