Thread by @AlpacaAurelius

All the evidence red meat is not bad for you:

Red meat is a superfood and we've been brainwashed into fearing it.

Red meat does not:

1. cause heart disease (via sat fat)
2. cause cancer.
3. reduce your lifespan

In fact, it does the exact opposite.

Here's all the evidence:

There's some evidence that saturated fat increases LDL cholesterol. But does that mean that saturated fat causes heart disease?

The study that birthed this whole fetid monstrosity of nutritional recommendations was based on a cherry picked study from Ancel Keys

This is how most of the story goes...BS observational studies demonizing red meat...but when the randomized controlled trials come out, it shows the opposite.

Researchers lowered cholesterol like they intended by 14%.

But this led to a “22% higher risk of death for each 30 mg/dL reduction in serum cholesterol”

This study was BURIED for 40 years.

Sydney Heart health study

It was meant to support the AHA’s hypothesis but ended up revealing the disastrous consequences of seed oils

The group that replaced saturated fat with vegetable oils had a 62% HIGHER death rate despite lowering cholesterol

19 BMJ researchers calling for us to retract guidance on reducing saturated fat as evidence no longer supports it.

2019 BMJ Meta Analysis of 22 RCTs

They concluded:

‘The preponderance of evidence indicates that low-fat diets that reduce serum cholesterol do not reduce cardiovascular events or mortality”

If they want to use observational evidence, I can too...

This study on 42 European countries showed a very strong NEGATIVE correlation between animal products and heart disease.

PURE study: 140k subjects from 18 countries

Results:

- Animal protein associated with lower risk of mortality.
- Saturated fat associated with lower risk of CVD
- Highest fat associated with 20% lower risk of death
- Highest carb intake associated with 28% high risk of death

2015 Meta-Analysis

Here’s what this study concludes…

“Saturated fats are not associated with all cause mortality, CVD, CHD, ischemic stroke, or type 2 diabetes”

“Trans fats are associated with all cause mortality and CHD mortality”

Zoe Harcombe Meta-Analysis of RCTs

A review of 62,000 patients showed no significant difference from interventions lowering dietary fat.

Zoe Harcombe also aggregated World Health Organization Data from 192 countries showing a negative correlation between deaths and cholesterol in females.

Cholesterol is the reason why saturated fat was vilified in the first place.

Meta-Analysis of observational studies of 347k subjects

“No significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD”

Meta Analysis of 32 Observational Studies of 500k participants:

According to the study, “There is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD”

RCT: Replacing Saturated Fat with Polyunsaturated fats (This was the govt recommendation)

“Available evidence from adequately controlled randomized controlled trials suggest replacing SFA with mostly n-6 PUFA is unlikely to reduce CHD events, CHD mortality or total mortality.”

Meta-Analysis of RCTs Replacing Saturated Fat

“Present systematic review provides NO evidence for the beneficial effects of reduced / modified fats.

Replacing saturated fat with PUFA led to no reduction in heart disease.

A study of Chicago men by Stamler showed NO independent association between saturated fat and heart disease or mortality. This was on 1000s of men.

This study spans 9 years, eight medical centers, $115m and 361k people.

– Experiment group who lowered saturated fat died at higher rates– In the 16 year follow up the treatment group had 20% higher lung cancer even though they quit smoking

30-year follow-up from the framingham study showed that lowering cholesterol led to an increase of “11% overall and 14% CVD death rate increase per 1 mg/dL per year drop in cholesterol levels”

Additionally men with cholesterol below 190 were 3x more likely to get colon cancer.

Oslo Heart Attack Study

This study includes 412 middle aged men who had a heart attack. One group ate a diet high in cheese milk and meat. The other group had a low cholesterol diet with lots of soybean oil.

Lowered cholesterol by 30% but no significant reduction in death

According to the journalists in the Lancet after the Food Pyramid “so far despite all the effort and money that has been spent, the evidence that eliminating risk factors will eliminate heart disease adds up to little more than zero in terms of preventing heart disease

A study of 10k civil servants in Israel over 23 years showed no significant association between dietary saturated fat reduction and heart disease.

The only factor preventative of heart disease was “religious orthodoxy”.

What about cancer?

Meta-Analysis of RCTs on Lowering Red Meat’s Effect on Cancer. The authors found no significant associations with red meat intake and increased risk of heart events or cancer.

73 Studies of Red and Processed Meat Intake on Cancer

This study concludes, “The possible absolute effects of red and processed meat consumption on cancer mortality and incidence are very small, and the certainty of evidence is low to very low”

Red Meat and Colon Polyps

This study found that in people with precancerous colon polyps, reducing red meat did not decrease the risk of recurrence.

2013 Meta-Analysis

8 Asian studies of 300k people followed for 6 to 15 years

“Red meat intake was INVERSELY associated with CVD mortality in men and with cancer mortality in women in Asian countries.”

Study on Vegetarians vs Meat Eaters

No difference in death rate between vegetarians and meat eaters

Hong Kong

- Consumes more meat per person than any other nation at 695 grams per day
- Longest lifespan in the world at 84.5 years

India

- 2nd lowest per meat consumption in the world
- India has a life expectancy of 68.3 years
It’s supposed to be the other way around??

New study of more than 218,000 adults from over 50 countries around the world suggests that consuming unprocessed meat regularly can reduce the risk of early death and can increase human longevity.

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