fishini, on 22 August 2013 - 07:52 PM, said:
After over 60000 years since homo erectus evolved into homo sapiens the species has eaten everything available including plenty of meat. After all it has been proved that developing the cooking of meat making it easier to digest forced homo erectus brains to grow quicker giving rise to us. Now you try telling us that meat protein is bad for us. Makes you wonder how we ever survived all these 1000's of years. Good job you and the WHO were not about or we would still be living in caves hunting and gathering. We are and have always been omnivores. Even our closest relative the chimp eats meat. Or have they got it wrong also. If you had said processed meat was no good for us then I would agree. To say all meat is bad is like saying evolution has always got it wrong
Ok, where do I start?
firstly, I never said DON'T eat meat, I actually said it is recommended that we eat a 'semi-vegetarian' or 'vegetarian' diet. Secondly, intensive farming methods have made most meat and fish less healthy than it was some 6000 years ago when all meat was unprocessed and organic, the animals lived off unpolluted lush pastures, weren't subjected to numerous antibiotic medication, weren't housed in cages or pens that wastes away their lean muscle tissue making it far more fatty (the unhealthy type), didn't swim in waters contaminated with dioxins and pcb's and didn't eat the brains of their dead relatives. Therefore, it isn't just unprocessed meat that is bad for our health. Thirdly, maybe you're in the wrong job, Fish; you seem to know more than the World Health Organisation (2013), and, me, a qualified clinical nutritionist BSc PGCE MSc PhD.
The WHO don't just randomly decide a world health policy; they collate data, meta analysis, cochrane reports, etc.
I'll start a new topic on the rheology of food; i'm sure you'll know more than Muller et al, and, of course, me. :-)