Red Meat Not Bad For You After All

Good news for steak lovers. New research shows that the long-standing theory that red meat is a big part of heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic ailments isn't correct after all.

Instead, the main issue appears to be with PROCESSED meats. It appears that in previous research, the researchers simply lumped all forms of red meat together, whether or not it was processed. So, people eating grass-fed steak (a healthy variety of red meat) got lumped in the same category as somebody eating a ketchup-covered hamburger with a side of french fries.

Since most of the red meat in this country is processed, this creates the appearance that ALL red meat is bad for you. However, once you seperate out the actual true physiological cause of chronic heart disease and other complaints, it becomes evident that the real problem is in the processing of the meat, and also, what is consumed along with it.

People rarely eat hamburgers without a soda and fries, right? And so if I'm a researcher and I see that everybody eating hamburgers is fat and has heart disease, I might assume it's become of the red meat, not the fact that the people involved are also eating tons of fried, salty potatoes and sugar-rich soda.

There's actually nothing wrong with red meat. In fact, grass-fed cattle produce a very healthy meat balanced in Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids (I've posted articles before on this in relation to fish oils). So don't run away from a nice, grass-fed steak... just don't smother it in sugary barbeque sauce and eat a pile of french fries with it!

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