Red Meat

[Scott]

I was watching a few nutrition type shows on satellite, not that I take what is said on them as fact but they were talking about 'good' proteins and were really reluctant to say much about red meat. Ive heard this sort of stuff before but it made me think......
if red meat needs to be 'taken in moderation' due to it not being digested very well, hanging around in the colon, giving you cancer, making you gay ect. Then how can that fit into the efficient human engine type model?
Would our ancestors not have eaten shit loads of red meat? I dont know what wouldve roamed britian years ago but probably deer and shit, surely we wouldve been eating just as much of that as we would fish ect.

so is all the red meat talk just plain wrong? if not then why are we not better at digesting it?

[samurai69]

all the red meat talk is just plain wrong?

more or less


the frech deer, elk etc roamed freeer therfore meat was leaner.......................


we digest it well enough IMO


in early days pre keeping meat fresh we binged more on fresh meat then may have had to revert back to pulses and grains etc...............flushing system through


things only get stuck if theres nothing to flush themthroughg


that sort of thing


western diet is poor.................normal scottish diet is worst in europe allegedly


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[Cookie]

I`m with S69 on this one, too much of a good thing is a bad thing, not enough fibre & water to cleanse colon & we are all in big trouble down the line. We know cavemen etc ate plenty of meat BUT they would have also eaten plenty of vegetation & other food sources around them as & when they became seasonally available.

[samurai69]

I`m with S69 on this one, too much of a good thing is a bad thing, not enough fibre & water to cleanse colon & we are all in big trouble down the line. We know cavemen etc ate plenty of meat BUT they would have also eaten plenty of vegetation & other food sources around them as & when they became seasonally available.

anmd tended to only binge on meat when it was available

[Scott]

so its very probable that in an 'evolutionary' type of diet that red meat wasnt consumed all that often so maybe we havent evolved to the point where we digest it as well as other things?

[Cookie]

so its very probable that in an 'evolutionary' type of diet that red meat wasnt consumed all that often so maybe we havent evolved to the point where we digest it as well as other things?

Once upon a time it probably wasn`t consumed "daily" but when it was available they would have eaten a lot of it, thing that makes it worse is they way cattle are now farmed with excessive amounts of grain feed & drugs, all of which will not help digestion.

[samurai69]

and tended to only binge on meat when it was available

[Cookie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/fashi ... veman.html

[samurai69]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/fashion/10caveman.html

interested to see long term tests on subjects doing this or similar

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