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Originally Posted by YouseffTheSheep  I can't believe you just compared eating meat to smoking. Hundreds of millions of people have lived healthy long lives having meat in their diet. Not to mention I've never heard of a centenarian who hasn't eaten meat and is a vegetarian. |
Yousef, I think you may have missed my point. I was not directly comparing eating meat to smoking there...or at least I wasn't trying to. I was just using an example of why there's not much discussion out there on the health benefits of meat....and that it's because there aren't many benefits to meat.
However.....directly comparing meat to smoking is really not that far off...at least when it comes to grilled meats. The carcinogens generated during the grilling and frying of meats is similar to what is found in cigarettes. I even read about a study which concluded 1 piece of grilled meat can contain as many carcinogens as around 300 cigarettes. You can do a search on heterocyclic amines if you want to read more about it.
Thad