Scoffing too much meat and eggs is ‘just as bad as smoking’, claim scientists

[editor]

Here's the latest health scare for y'all to chew over:

A study appears to show an overwhelming link between life-threatening diseases and eating meats, eggs, milk, and cheese

Middle-aged people who eat protein-rich food are four times more likely to die of cancer than someone who only eats a little, according to a new study.

The researchers said eating a lot of protein increased the risk of cancer almost as much as smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

They reached their findings, published in the journal Cell: Metabolism, after tracking thousands of people over 20 years.

“We provide convincing evidence that a high-protein diet - particularly if the proteins are derived from animals - is nearly as bad as smoking for your health,” one of the academics behind the work, Dr Valter Longo, of the University of Southern California, told The Daily Telegraph.

A high-protein diet was defined as one in which 20 per cent of the calories came from protein. They recommended eating 0.8g of protein per kilogram of body weight a day during middle age.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...mful-as-smoking-scientists-claim-9169335.html

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Like anything really - a balanced diet is the way to increase your chances of a healthy life. It is well known that we eat too much protein in the west, so this makes sense. I try not to eat too much red meat, but I love eggs and cheese.

 

[Callie]

stabbing yourself in the eye with a sharpened carrot is also VER VER BAD


is this news?

 

[ddraig]

*gets comfy

 

[farmerbarleymow]

stabbing yourself in the eye with a sharpened carrot is also VER VER BAD


is this news?

I think we need a double blind randomised trial to test your carrot hypothesis.

 

[SpookyFrank]

So we're not allowed to eat fats, sugars, carbohydrates or protein now?

That's pretty much all the major components of food out the window then. What exactly do these fuckers expect us to eat?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Let's all live long, dull lives

 

[ddraig]

and here they come!

 

[Callie]

So we're not allowed to eat fats, sugars, carbohydrates or protein now?

That's pretty much all the major components of food out the window then. What exactly do these fuckers expect us to eat?

chips are OK and fine for all


chips chips chips

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

chips are OK and fine for all


chips chips chips

Especially when cooked in beef dripping.

 

[ddraig]

i had large chips earlier, huge and lush

 

[Callie]

I dont think they can ever ban chips. They are a worldwide, nutritionally adept foodsource and I am now talking myself into eating chips cos I havent had any dinner.

 

[mod]

How come we're all living longer then????

 

[editor]

Let's all live long, dull lives

How does meat and eggs make your life more exciting?

 

[Brechin Sprout]

How does meat and eggs make your life more exciting?

I'll give you my meat when you pry it from my cold, dead hands

 

[Dr Jon]

Now the fuckers will want to ban eating food in pubs.


The Nanny State is coming to get you!

 

[dessiato]

The problem with eating any type of food is that sooner or later you will die. Not eating any food will only lead to dying sooner rather than later. Overall the problem with life is that it is an illness curable only by death, after all no one ever survived being alive.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

How does meat and eggs make your life more exciting?

Cutting out things you enjoy is what makes it dull. Obviously giving a rare steak to a vegan won't make their life more exciting.

 

[pogofish]

I dont think they can ever ban chips. They are a worldwide, nutritionally adept foodsource and I am now talking myself into eating chips cos I havent had any dinner.

Chips were actually the very first food to be claimed to be more unhealthy than smoking fags - waaaaay back in the early 1980s!

 

[Bonfirelight]

So what they're saying is, smoking is actually only as bad as eating a decent portion of meat and eggs?

good news as a smoker I reckon.

 

[stavros]

I'll give you my meat when you pry it from my cold, dead hands

Is this really the thread for sexual advances like that?

 

[Ax^]

oh noes

Danger as smug vegetarians approach critical mass

http://newstoad.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/danger-as-smug-vegetarians-approach.html

Britain is in danger of an environmental catastrophe as many vegetarians are rapidly increasing in smugness, to a level approaching critical mass according to television boffin Professor Brian Cox.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

From the Guardian:
Winkler continues: "The practical consequence for the protein story is that you've got a correlation between food intake and disease, but the food intake data is so poor that any correlation is suspect. Academics sit in front of a computer screen and do data analysis. But they never question the quality of the primary data. I'm not being rude, but my attitude towards that study is contempt."

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...-protein-what-can-we-eat-diet-cancer-diabetes

 

[stupid dogbot]

There's people on the comments of that report who appear to believe that prayer cured their cancer. And somewhere, there's almost certainly a study that backs that up, too.

 

[skyscraper101]

Too much of most things is bad for you.

I believe in a balanced diet.

 

[alpha slappa]

So we're not allowed to eat fats, sugars, carbohydrates or protein now?

That's pretty much all the major components of food out the window then. What exactly do these fuckers expect us to eat?

Mud? Play doh?

 

[alpha slappa]

There's people on the comments of that report who appear to believe that prayer cured their cancer. And somewhere, there's almost certainly a study that backs that up, too.

And one that disproves it.

 

[stupid dogbot]

And one that disproves it.

True that

 

[T & P]

A bit of a non-story, as per usual with such subject. But quite useful for agenda pushing and point scoring, I guess...

 

[Dr Jon]

The problem with eating any type of food is that sooner or later you will die. Not eating any food will only lead to dying sooner rather than later. Overall the problem with life is that it is an illness curable only by death, after all no one ever survived being alive.

Yes. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
Eating tasty food, drinking lots of alcohol and smoking are some of the few pleasures in life which have the beneficial side-effect of helping to curtail the whole dreary episode.

Sadly, nanny-state busybodies are determined that we should all suffer a joyless, tax-paying existence for as long as possible.