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WHO: Evaluation of the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat (Colon Cancer)

Something to it, really. I didn't used to believe it but I do now. I went like 2 months of only eating steak and spinach (trying to do a paleo type diet) and my bloodwork came back worse than it's ever been.

Chicken and fish are just easier to digest, period. Red meat is too heavy and hard to break down.
 
A red meat-derived glycan promotes inflammation and cancer progression.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/2/542.full


I've stopped eating all meat, red or otherwise since being diagnosed 6.5 years ago. SO its nice for this decision to be continually reinforced by new studies. I still regret taking antibiotics though, which may have caused by IBD!!
 

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some specialists also argue that with conventional farming, the use of hormones, antibiotics and food (grains) to force-feed the animals affect the quality of the meat people eat. I have read that more antibiotics are being used for healthy animal farming than for real sick humans in America now. that is really disturbing. Thats what cancer prevention specialist dr R. Beliveau brings to our attention, if im correct, in his latest book : http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/li...y-save-your-life/story-fni0dihe-1227272864549
Never again I would eat a conventional farm animal. the methods of farming are just too immoral for me to bypass them.
 
It's actually true that all this reporting of over use of antibiotics and over prescription is bad,but we get most of our antibiotics through the food we eat.farmers want big cows and chickens to grow really quickly.it should be banned unless there's a health issue for the animals.
 
some specialists also argue that with conventional farming, the use of hormones, antibiotics and food (grains) to force-feed the animals affect the quality of the meat people eat. I have read that more antibiotics are being used for healthy animal farming than for real sick humans in America now. that is really disturbing. Thats what cancer prevention specialist dr R. Beliveau brings to our attention, if im correct, in his latest book : http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/li...y-save-your-life/story-fni0dihe-1227272864549
Never again I would eat a conventional farm animal. the methods of farming are just too immoral for me to bypass them.
I recall some studies determining endotoxin levels in meats causing inflammation in humans, these animals microbiomes are likely out of whack and harbor many pathogens which make toxins that remain in their meat when we eat them.
 
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