Red meat and heart disease, the Facts, not marketing.. As Eskimos diet was 90-95 percent animal protien, they would be thought to have high levels of Heart Disease or chloresterol, well, no, the reason..it was very cold, to us, not Eskimos though.. Why, didnt they get it? Well, its cold to us, and their Liver, so, the Eskimos Liver heats the body, through the high animal fat diet, making the Eskimos job of finding these foods, very active, as well, as eating the entire...animal.. In the tropical areas it was fish and lighter meat, and in the cold regions heavy blubber, and fermented meats..to keep warmer..fat keeps you warm, less fat keeps you cooler.. So, in every region, you will find completely different diets, based on...temperature, nothing else.. Thats why Vegans find it extremely difficult, or impossible to live in the Artic, as they would be frozen to death in a matter of days.. Its so simple to me to figure out this diet thing, just by what the traditional cultures ate, and to some degree, still are ...eating.. Beliefs, are hard to break, observations cant be broken... This is where I constantly talk about regional diets, and the way Traditional cultures, engineered, their perfect health and perfect teeth, through their..region.. All traditional people only ate what was from there local environment, that is in Season, and only what was in season.. This means, migrating animals, fish, birds etc plus plants of the season, etc.. Variety, the Spice of Life.. By, eating different plants and animals that were regionally and seasonally available, the Cultures understood their lands.. And their...food, as soon as they understood the Land, they understood how their digestion worked through trial and error of regional and seasonal...foods.. And they stuck to it, with vigour..no exceptions..no mcdonalds, coke etc..below is the now misquoted article, doing the rounds on Vegan websites, showing again, why marketing is such a disease in the alternative...Health.. it was never Meat, that was the problem, it was the amount of meat, just if you eat heaps of Fruit, it will give you diabetes, chronic mineralisation problems, and if you drink gallons of water you could drown... I personally, continue to tell people to eat ..less, as well as Vegans and Paleo etc.. Less is more, eat less and restore...pete m.. Many studies in the last few decades have shown that there is a link between red meat consumption and heart disease. The old-fashioned (and incorrect) thinking was that the saturated fat and cholesterol in the meat were the culprits. A new study suggests some alternative culprits. Several scientific studies referred to in Grow Youthful show that the saturated fat and cholesterol in our food are beneficial rather than harmful. Indeed, they are essential for good health. Bacterial imbalance The new study (1) may explain the link between saturated fat and heart disease. Stanley Hazen suggests that the blame lies within the microbiome - the ecology of 100 trillion bacteria that live in the human gut. These bacteria play an essential role in health and life. They produce a variety of vitamins and other phyto-nutrients; fend off infections by harmful microorganisms; digest complex carbohydrates that human enzymes cannot handle; and play many other beneficial roles. In earlier studies in 2011 Dr Hazen demonstrated that some gut bacteria can convert choline (a molecule found in eggs and meat) into trimethylamine, which is then processed in the liver to create trimethylamine N-oxide or TMAO. TMAO interferes with liver enzymes that make bile acids. Bile is necessary for the removal of excess cholesterol (and many other functions). TMAO also disrupts cholesterol metabolism in other parts of the body, including artery walls. Basically, TMAO causes atherosclerosis. Now, his 2013 study (1) shows that some bacteria can also convert carnitine into TMAO. Carnitine is somewhat similar to choline, and is also abundant in red meat. The problem only seems to occur when certain gut bacteria are out of balance. Hazen noted that omnivorous people (those who regularly eat meat) produced more TMAO than did vegans or vegetarians who ate some meat just for this study after previously avoiding it. In one test five human volunteers ate 225 gm / 8 oz sirloin steaks plus a carnitine supplement. This diet produced high levels of both carnitine and TMAO in the volunteers blood. But after the same people were given antibiotics to kill their gut microbes, the same steak meal produced little TMAO, even though their carnitine levels went even higher than before. This showed that the production of TMAO needs certain bacteria. These bacteria are not always present. Dr Hazen persuaded a vegan volunteer to eat a steak. The vegans subsequent TMAO level did not rise. This suggests that the vegans particular gut bacteria did not contain species that convert the carnitine. Some vegetarian volunteers, given carnitine pills but spared the steak, showed similar results. Dr Hazen looked at the association between heart disease and levels of carnitine and TMAO in more than 2,500 people. He found there was indeed an association between heart disease and carnitine, but only when TMAO levels were high. At this stage Dr Hazen does not know if taking carnitine supplements can cause TMAO, or how TMAO wreaks its havoc on arteries. An analysis of the faeces of both vegetarians and meat eaters led Dr Hazen to suspect bacteria of several genera, including Clostridium and Fusibacterium. Recommendations Do not regularly eat large quantities of meat. A variety of problems are caused not by eating meat, but by eating too much meat. A small quantity that can easily fit into the palm of your hand is the most you need in a day. Bacterial imbalance, particularly that caused by antibiotics, is damaging to health and life. Traditional probiotic fermented foods detailed in Grow Youthful help maintain the balance in the gut biome. People who live the diet and lifestyle in my ebook Grow Youthful have a high degree of resistance to heart disease. References 1. Robert A Koeth, Zeneng Wang, Bruce S Levison, Jennifer A Buffa, Elin Org, Brendan T Sheehy, Earl B Britt, Xiaoming Fu, Yuping Wu, Lin Li, Jonathan D Smith, Joseph A DiDonato, Jun Chen, Hongzhe Li, Gary D Wu, James D Lewis, Manya Warrier, J Mark Brown, Ronald M Krauss, W H Wilson Tang, Frederic D Bushman, Aldons J Lusis, Stanley L Hazen. Intestinal microbiota metabolism of l-carnitine, a nutrient in red meat, promotes atherosclerosis. Nature Medicine (2013) doi:10.1038/nm.3145. Published online 07 April 2013. 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