(Examiner.com) — Women consuming lots of red meat can increase stroke risk
If you are women and consume way too much of red meat you can be putting yourself at a higher risk for stroke according to Swedish researchers.
Researchers have discovered those women who consume a minimum of 3.6 ounces daily or more were at a 42% greater risk to suffer from a stroke due to blocked blood flow in the brain in comparison to those women who had consumed less than a little under one ounce of red meat daily.
Diets in which contain large amounts of red meat have been associated to numerous negative health effects. These health effects include increase risk of certain cancers, heart disease and high blood pressure. Three studies had looked into the association of stroke and red meat. Only one of those studies had linked red meat to stroke.
In further examination of the association, Dr. Susanna Larrson and associates of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, had taken a look at 34,670 women, age range 39 years to 73 and all women had no cardiovascular disease or cancer at the start of the study in 1997.
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One word: Duh…but I guess it takes several studies to get the idea across that red meat isn’t all the good for us, especially when eaten in large quantities. I haven’t eaten red meat in over 40 years and don’t miss it one bit. Who needs this unhealthy, expensive and ecologically inefficient source of protein? I for one can do without and will continue to do so.
double duh….. I have been vegetarian for 20 years, we don’t need meat to survive. This way I save money and can afford organic fruits and veggies/seeds/nuts/ beans/legumes etc. My 87yo husband is in great shape too since he quit meat about 10 years ago, lost the paunch and lowered his cholesterol to a good level (no, not the ridiculous low the Drs tell you to have so that they can put you on statins).
I agree that too much red meat in the diet, primarily because of the animal fat, is not the healthiest diet.
At the same time, 3.6 ounces per OR MORE??? Real exact study…..NOT!
what do you have to say about chicken as I eat very little red meat but love chicken…thank you for the feedback..sandra
I wonder if the same can be linked to ecologically grown meat!?
not eating red meat ur economy can ignore such protein but in the developing world it is even a luxury.
There are so many erroneous assumptions in that article that it’s hard to know where to begin. When studies confirm what we already “know” they are hard to trust. Where is the “proof” that red meat causes high blood pressure? Have you actually read the studies that show a link to certain cancers? If you do you might find the link a little tenuous at best. Just because “every body” knows something does not make it true or based on research. If a person wants to be vegetarian that is a choice; it is NOT ecologically unsound to eat meat that is grown with sun and grass; it is ecologically unsound to have huge factory farms and feed cows grain which they can’t digest so they must be fed constant antibiotics. that meat is not nutritious; grass fed beef is high in Omega 3 fatty acids and many essential nutrients. What do you think people ate before “civilization”? Mostly meat. Lower carbohydrate. Why are we so fat? It’s not meat and meat is not the villan for everything else, either.
I tend to agree with Marilyn. What did people live on in years past? What do our nomadic people live on? Meat and they live to be 100 years. And I am amused that your respondents recommend organic foods, yet in my country – Kenya – and in fact, in Africa as a whole, we re being herded like dumb sheep to accept GMO foods which the producing countries do not eat. I would like someone honest to tell me the hidden Agenda here.