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I feel like this thread has gone too far off topic and is inciting a lot of unverified opinions, my own included.
Also potential misinformation, which I’m not sure has a place on CoffeeTime or indeed anywhere.
I’m happy to provide citations for everything I’ve written here @Ernie1 if that helps.
Grahamsphillips The more red meat we eat, the LESS cancer and LOWER all cause mortality.
I’m not doubting that what’s been said isn’t backed by some sort of research, it’s just this bit
that seems in contrast to advice currently available on the Cancer Research website.
Read this about WEGOVY and you’ll see what I mean:
On the subject of red meat, countries that have high consumption have lower cancer risks and cancer continued to rise when red meat consumption dropped.
So big food (ie UPF or Junk Food) is essentially owned by 9 worldwide brands. The huge profits are NOT in Real Food.. they come from the UPF. No way would Big Food want UPF to be recognised as addictive (hence there is no official classification of food addiction in DSM or ICD) or the cause of obesity, cancer and the rest of it. Here’s an article from the BMJ about COKE for example. In fact the BMJ has carried numerous articles like this.. I just picked one at random
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k5050
So we can see where the vested interests of the food cos come from
As for Big Pharma: To put it simply, they have no interest in prevention.. they wouldn’t sell any drugs! Of course its much more complicated than that but these are simple truths
Just out of interest I checked on the corporate sponsors of CR UK. Reach your own conclusions!
Interesting.
Is ‘big agriculture’ a thing?
Susan Greenhalgh investigates how, faced with shrinking Western markets, the soft drink giant sought to secure sales and build its image in China
What do you think about this meta study for example?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698595/
It collates together many studies and seems to show that there is a positive correlation between cr cancer risk the more red meat is eaten, not just processed meat. If so then it tends to support the blue zones diet which does include meat but in relatively small quantities.
I’m not a Daily Mail fan but this is nevertheless pretty much spot on
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1325453/Everything-thought-knew-food-WRONG.html
Ernie1 The problem is a lot of the statements comes from research (“studies”) and you have to be super careful when reading such statements. This is because such research “studies” can be based on other “studies” and often there is either a paucity of actual experimental data, funding interests on some research and of course the issues about self selected/reported data for studies. e.g.
There’s loads more issues that need to be considered.
If we’re now referencing the Daily Mail I think I’ve seen all I need to see in this thread.
Ernie1 If we’re now referencing the Daily Mail I think I’ve seen all I need to see in this thread.
Far from referencing the Daily Fail. The point is it’s a simple to understand explanation. I’ve already posted a more complex reference from the BMJ.
Arent you dismissing the weight of scientific research by a multitude of dcientists workjng independently all over the world as being impelled by a cabal of agri businesses but following instead a journalist who writes a book to promote her own diet and earns money through it? I found her absolute dismissal of the importance of the fibre in fruits and vegetables and of th ebenefits of fruits to be startling. Meat and butter cannot replace what fruits can give us and fruits come with fibre that control the intake of sugar into the bloodstream…
chlorox Those acadenic studies arent perfect but there is nothing else that is able to give a better and less subjectivr source of data on which we can make decisions…
What I was taught in university was to be very careful about epidemiological studies and scientific papers. Lots of real rubbish work out there. You really have to dig into the meat of it and how the statements of fact were really arrived at.