There is not a single healthy reason to avoid animal food. Humanity ate meat hundreds and thousands (millions!) Years. Our bodies are fully capable of absorbing, assimilating and fully utilizing useful nutrients from animal products.
How exaggerated is the damage to eating meat?
Of course, the truth is that poorly processed meat harms the body, especially if it was taken from a sick animal, or this animal was treated with improper means. However, fresh meat, obtained from a healthy animal, which during life could graze on open pastures - is quite another matter. There are also medical or religious contraindications. But if you have not received an unambiguous prohibition from a doctor or priest, then meat, fish, eggs and dairy products will be extremely useful and nutritious for you.
Specialists at Harvard University conducted a study that involved 120 thousand respondents. This study showed that giving up meat or limiting its amount in the diet helped prevent one out of ten premature deaths in men, and one in 13 premature deaths in women. The study also provided evidence that the main harm to meat for a person is that it can cause the formation of harmful chemicals, some of which were associated with the formation of bowel cancer. Harvard researchers have recognized especially harmful red meat, cooked in a grill or on charcoal.
Dose - the border between the medicine and the poison
Real nutritionists do not like to make unequivocal sentences to this or that product. They believe that the benefits of red meat are too easily and quickly forgotten, preparing for a decisive rejection of this food.
Laura Wyness of the British Nutrition Foundation, wrote on the fund's website: "Evidence of a link between the consumption of red meat and the development of cardiovascular disease is recognized as unconvincing. Although red meat contains saturated fats, it also provides nutrients that can protect against cardiovascular disease. These substances are omega-3 fatty acids, unsaturated fats, B vitamins and selenium. In addition, red meat contains important vitamins D, B3 and B12.
Laura Vinness warns that the credulity of the population and its "fight against meat" has already led to an alarming shortage of nutrients and the development of many diseases. The lack of iron in the diet leads to anemia, and zinc is necessary for growth in childhood and fighting infections.
There are meat several times a week - it is completely permissible. However, those who eat meat every day should think twice. One should also be especially careful with pork meat, harmful organisms and parasites are usually found in his muscular tissues. And, of course, under no circumstances do not eat raw meat - its harm is obvious and everything is connected with the same parasites.