Study suggests processed meat a real health risk

[Javaman]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100517/hl_nm/us_heart_meat;_ylt=Aosr.XVActCfMjXOosILcL6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFpdjhnOHQ2BHBvcwMzMgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDc3R1ZHlzdWdnZXN0

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Eating bacon, sausage, hot dogs and other processed meats can raise the risk of heart disease and diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that identifies the real bad boys of the meat counter.

Eating unprocessed beef, pork or lamb appeared not to raise risks of heart attacks and diabetes, they said, suggesting that salt and chemical preservatives may be the real cause of these two health problems associated with eating meat.

The study, an analysis of other research called a meta-analysis, did not look at high blood pressure or cancer, which are also linked with high meat consumption.

"To lower risk of heart attacks and diabetes, people should consider which types of meats they are eating," said Renata Micha of the Harvard School of Public Health, whose study appears in the journal Circulation.

[hobbit709]

1. Humans have used salt as a preservative for millenia.

I'd bet on the added chemicals.

[Kalyke]

3. And the feed given to the animals while alive.

They slop 'em down with loads of corn instead of letting them eat their natural food: grass and other green leafy products.

They also mix all kinds of animals together, so you might have a more healthy grass-fed cow mixed in with wrong-nourished corn-fed cow in just one pound of ground beef. Ugh.

[Kalyke]

2. All together now: DUH!!!

Meat makes me positively ill now days.

I haven't been able to eat pork in 20 years and it's getting to the point where a burger or a steak makes my stomach churn with cramps.

I mostly eat veggies, cheese, fruit and whole grains.

[KurtNYC]

4. Hmmm ...let's see,..the Government knows that certain things are

major health risks -- HFCS, nitrates, benzene, cell phones, frequent dental x-rays, cigarettes, polluted ground water -- but they do nothing to correct the source of these. They barely warn the tax payers that these risks exist...

It is as if they don't want us all hanging around to collect social security!

[WinkyDink]

5. Beef with all its marbled fat unrelated to heart attacks?