Comment by bryanlarsen
3 days ago
I don't think that's true. Most of that evidence includes bacon and processed red meats in their studies. We're much less confident that unprocessed red meat is unhealthy.
3 days ago
I don't think that's true. Most of that evidence includes bacon and processed red meats in their studies. We're much less confident that unprocessed red meat is unhealthy.
We are very confident that high saturated fat causes metabolic disorders, and we're more confident that unprocessed red meat causes cancer than we are there aspartame causes cancer. Which is really saying something, because it seems like in the zeitgeist everyone just thinks diet coke is cancer juice.
Point is, health is complicated, and replacing kale and spinach with cheeseburgers and milkshakes is a bad deal. Ultimately I think most people eat PLENTY of meat. But they certainly don't eat plenty of high-fiber foods like vegetables.
> we're more confident that unprocessed red meat causes cancer than we are there aspartame causes cancer.
Yes, I'll give you that, because you're jumping over a pretty low bar.
> replacing kale and spinach with cheeseburgers and milkshakes is a bad deal.
Again jumping over a low bar. Replacing kale & spinach with pretty much anything is a bad deal. Including >99% of all healthy foods.
And cheeseburgers/milkshakes aren't in the list of healthy foods. We can argue whether it's the ground beef patty in there that's unhealthy but there's lots of other stuff in those...
FWIW, raw spinach and especially kale aren't exactly great for you... you really need to at least blanch them to make them more digestible.
Also, I don't see a cheeseburger or milkshake on the recommended list. You also seemed to skip fries... I guess they're okay because they might be vegetarian.