Red Meat Like Beef, Lamb and Pork is Unhealthy

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Red Meat Like Beef, Lamb and Pork is Unhealthy

The claims that red meats like beef, lamb and pork are unhealthy are myths with absolutely no basis in scientific studies or logical nutritional data. The reverse is actually true. Red meat with its natural fat is a very healthy food and heals the body of many diseases. These meats do not contain unnatural levels of hormones as stated by the numerous myths, distortions and lies. Any hormone given to a steer is eliminated naturally by the animal's body well before slaughter. These meats do not contain unhealthy levels of pesticides. Any pesticide which may have been on the animal's food or sprayed on the animals to control pests is eliminated naturally by the animal before slaughter. Laws and meat inspections prevent the sale of red meat with any unhealthy level of hormones or pesticides.
Myths, Distortions and Lies About Beef.
Studies Prove Beef Is A Safe And Healthy Food.

The North American Plains Indians are a prime example of a society that lived for centuries on the red meat of the buffalo. The Indians made pemmican, which was a mixture of dried, crushed and shredded buffalo meat mixed with heated buffalo fat at a 50% rate. The fat content was about 70% on a calorie basis. Protein was 30% with no carbohydrates or fiber. Dried berries were sometimes added, which provided a small amount of carbohydrate. The lean meat was best for drying, but the fat and fatty meat was favored for immediate consumption. The pemmican would keep for years and provided complete nourishment. The Hudson Bay Company (fur traders) purchased pemmican from the Indians by the ton and even had a specification whereby they would pay a higher price for premium pemmican made with bone marrow fat. The Indians and European explorers to North America also preferred the buffalo tongue for consumption after a kill due to its high-fat content. There is no documented data that this primarily red meat diet had any adverse health effects on the Indians. The opposite is true. They were extremely healthy until the white man gave them high-carbohydrate foods. Now the Pima Indians of Arizona have the highest diabetes rate in the world and a very high level of obesity. Many Indians are returning to the red meat pemmican of their ancestors in order to regain their health.

Weston A. Price, DDS reported excellent health among the Indians of Northern Canada east of the Rock Mountains in his book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" in 1933. These Indians lived almost entirely on "animals of the chase." They were nomadic wandering tribes following the moose and caribou herds as their source of food. They had no access to the ocean or river running salmon. They had no dairy animals and no source of grains, seeds, nuts or fruits. They obtained vitamin C from the adrenal glands and from other organs of the animals. Those Indians who lived in the settlements of the white man had access to carbohydrate foods from which they suffered a sharp drop in health. Many Indians in these settlements suffered from tuberculosis. They were healed when they were sent to live with the primitive Indians where they consumed the red meat diet.

However, highly processed meats have been linked to colon cancer. Early results of a major new study suggested that eating lots of preserved meats such as salami, bacon, cured ham and hot dogs could increase the risk of bowel cancer by 50 percent. When it came to fresh red meat - beef, lamb, pork and veal - there is no link. Previous studies have linked a high-meat intake to colorectal cancer, but these studies grouped fresh and processed meats together and gave a distorted result.
Study Links Processed Meat to Cancer.

Nutritional books and reference resources consistently understate or neglect to state the high vitamin and mineral content of meat. Fruits and whole grains are generally listed first as a source to give the impression that they are the preferred source. Primitive Indian and Eskimo tribes have proven that a meat only diet not only provides a healthy diet but will prevent and heal many diseases. Vitamin B-12 is only available from animal sources and vegetarians are at a constant risk of deficiency.

Red meat does not cause or contribute to diabetes, heart disease and cancer according to the myths, distortions and lies of opponents.

The key to cancer prevention is awesome health and a robust immune system.

Cancer is caused by a combination of free radical damage to normal cells and the lack of body building amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Another major cause for cancer is believed by a growing number of professionals to be the excessive consumption of carbohydrates in the form of sugars, grains, fruits and starchy vegetables. The third major cause for cancer is believed to be the consumption of hydrogenated vegetable oil (trans fats) in the diet.

Cancer is NOT caused by eating animal products and natural saturated fats.

Instead, meat and natural fats are just the foods which promote health and prevent cancer. The rate of cancer has risen in all populations that increased their consumption of carbohydrates such as grains and sugars, and factory-made trans fats. Our modern diet as recommended by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid and other health organizations has replaced the healthy natural animal fats with carbohydrates and trans fats. The result has been a very high level of cancer even though many have stopped smoking.