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Some sources aren't as healthy as you think

For years we’ve been fed the line that a diet of red meat, supplements and protein shakes can have real health benefits. If only it were that simple.

 

A recently published by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, who tracked 2,400 middle-aged men over the course of 22 years, reported that a high-protein diet resulted in a 49% greater risk of heart failure. Many large, long-term population studies have also found that people who consume large amounts of protein, especially in the form of red and processed meat, are more likely to be obese or develop type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and colon cancer.

 

Thomas Sanders, professor of nutrition and dietetics at King’s College London, says the idea of a protein gap in our diet was first broached by a professor at MIT, Nevin Scrimshaw, in the 1960s. He claimed that the protein that comes from plant sources such as vegetables was deficient in vital amino acids and that we therefore needed to eat more animal protein.

 

Perhaps one of the biggest problems with high-protein diets is that the excess protein typically indicates an imbalanced diet, as it comes with a deficiency in another crucial food source. “A balanced diet is one that meets all your nutrient requirements and prevents chronic disease,” Sanders says. “High-protein diets are often low in fibre, and we think colorectal cancer and obesity are linked to low intakes of fibre. There has been so much negativity about fat over the years, but you see in the big population studies that weight gain typically occurs when a big proportion of the diet comes from animal protein.”

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/04/are-you-eating-too-much-protein?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

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Research links cancer to fruit and vegetables
Glasgow University team links increased use of nitrate fertilisers to rise of gullet cancer in UK 
Robin McKie, Science Editor

 

Sun 17 Feb 2002 10.33 GMT First published on Sun 17 Feb 2002 10.33 GMT
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Eating vegetables could cause cancer. Researchers have linked increased use of nitrate fertilisers to an alarming rise in gullet cancer in Britain.

The disease - which affects three times more men than women - kills more than 3,000 people in the UK every year, a threefold increase over the past 20 years. It is more common than stomach cancer.

The increase has puzzled researchers. But Glasgow University researchers, led by Professor Kenneth McColl, have discovered a link between nitrates in fruit and vegetables and gullet cancer.

'We are still carrying out this study, and are certainly not saying people should stop eating vegetables,' McColl said. 'But our investigations have shown that there is definitely something happening here.'

'It appears that the mass production of vegetables in the Western world since the last world war may be the underlying factor that has led to such huge increases in this form of cancer,' he added.

'We now want to determine if the permitted levels of nitrate fertilisers, which has fallen somewhat in recent years, may be partly to blame.'

McColl said it was unlikely that organic food would be any healthier, because it also contained substantial levels of nitrate, some of which came from natural fertilisers such as manure.

His research has so far revealed that green and root vegetables contain the highest levels of nitrate.

Gullet cancer also affects people in Scotland more than any other part of the United Kingdom, he revealed. In the last 20 years Scottish cases have risen from 450 to more than 1,100.

 
 
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No such thing as too much protein.

 

Not clearing it out fast enough is the problem.

 

:D

Pcc makes u blind

 

So what u prefer?

 

Cancer? Or die blind ?

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Ang moh diet consists of beef steak, beef burgers and beef pies what.

 

We from South East Asia, our diet consist of a lot of carbo which comes from rice. Our chances of getting type 2 diabetes are also high. Want to post also need to to think whether is it a relevant article here. Just blindly cut and paste nia.

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Ang moh diet consists of beef steak, beef burgers and beef pies what.

 

We from South East Asia, our diet consist of a lot of carbo which comes from rice. Our chances of getting type 2 diabetes are also high. Want to post also need to to think whether is it a relevant article here. Just blindly cut and paste nia.

Can just ignore ts la. If no interest, thread will just disappear into oblivion

 

Let him hv his glory posting.

 

May well be a retiree..

 

Be kind to the elderly

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I hope my wife don't read this.

 

I told her its good for complexion

 

and she swallowed it. [thumbsup]

 

:D

Haaaaaa

I hope my wife don't read this.

 

I told her its good for complexion

 

and she swallowed it. [thumbsup]

 

:D

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Ang moh diet consists of beef steak, beef burgers and beef pies what.

 

We from South East Asia, our diet consist of a lot of carbo which comes from rice. Our chances of getting type 2 diabetes are also high. Want to post also need to to think whether is it a relevant article here. Just blindly cut and paste nia.

He always starts thread that he doesn't participate in the discussion. Doesn't even express his opinion..

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He always starts thread that he doesn't participate in the discussion. Doesn't even express his opinion..

Eat in moderation. Depends on your energy expenditure that will somehow determine the amount of protein intake that one requires.
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Research links cancer to fruit and vegetables
 

 

I always thought those things were dangerous.

 

Better don't eat to be safe.  [smash]

 

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