Apparently, there are some of you out there eating red and processed meats with every meal.
I was scanning the news real quick, and I saw this item in the New York Times: Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat. A new study shows that people who eat more red or processed meat don’t live as long as the rest of us. Here’s the money quote:
To prevent premature deaths related to red and processed meats, Dr. Popkin suggested in an interview that people should eat a hamburger only once or twice a week instead of every day, a small steak once a week instead of every other day, and a hot dog every month and a half instead of once a week.
Umm, OK. Really? Are even you low-carb people eating that much red and processed meat? I guess someone is.
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Despite the fact that 3/4 of this house are omnivores, we don’t eat a lot of meat. When we do, it tends to be chicken or turkey. But I have this thing for processed meat. I suspect it’s salt-related. As much as I love sweets, if I had to choose, I’d take Fritos any day. And so occasionally I get a craving for a dish with sausage or bacon or some other kind of meat product. You know, something that used to be real meat until they added a lot of salt and chemicals to it. Mmm.
