Latest medical study regarding red-meat eaters.

I heard on PBS today that a very large study showed that not only are
meat eaters more likely to develop colon cancer which was already
known, but they are more likely to get several other cancers...liver,
prostate, lung and they may have mentioned a couple more, I think
stomach. The person talking about the study said that not only are
their carcinogens in meat, but the cooking process, particularly
grilling where, fat drips onto something, then smokes the meat was
part of the problem. She said this would also apply to chicken. Her
suggestion was to eat a hamburger no more than 3X a week, and when
barbequeing to cook the meat in an oven (even pan frying releases the
carcinogens) inside and just essentially finish it up on the grill
presumably once all the fat has been cooked out so it doesn't drip.

Of course, I have a better solution: forget the meat altogether and
switch to vegetarianism. It usually helps with weight as well. This
gets back to my premise in my last topic of survivability. It is
believed by anthropologists that early man was vegetarian, but
switched in order to get more calories thus increasing survivability.
Hey, we don't need no more stinkin calories. dkw

On Dec 11, 3:57 pm, " wrote:
I heard on PBS today that a very large study showed that not only are
meat eaters more likely to develop colon cancer which was already
known, but they are more likely to get several other cancers...liver,
prostate, lung and they may have mentioned a couple more, I think
stomach.

This is based on surveying some old fogies to collect information
about their meat eating habits, and medical history.

The problem is that the low meat eaters who supposedly have lower
cancer rates are also undoubtedly doing other things differently, not
just eating less meat.

Why do those people eat less meat? Probably many of them do because
they are concerned about their health. People who are concerned about
their health do lots of little things differently from those who
don't.

Just because people who are concerned about health eat less meat
doesn't mean that meat is unhealthy; it just means that those people
have been influenced by anti-meat propaganda which they believe.

Some of the things they believe really do promote health, and some
don't.

So both better health and lower meat consumption have an obvious
common cause: concern with one's health. This concern for one's health
could be linked to further biases such as more education, higher
income. Someone who avoids meat for health reasons probably also
doesn't drink or smoke, and makes other picky choices in diet, many of
which are genuinely healthful.

If the establishment preached that vegetables are harmful, then such
surveys would find that people eating fewer vegetables tend to be
healthier. Among those eating vegetables would be large numbers of
those who are oblivious to all health advice, whether it be sound or
bogus.