Posted on 03/06/2014 10:17:38 AM PST by EveningStar
That chicken wing you're eating could be as deadly as a cigarette. In a new study that tracked a large sample of adults for nearly two decades, researchers have found that eating a diet rich in animal proteins during middle age makes you four times more likely to die of cancer than someone with a low-protein diet -- a mortality risk factor comparable to smoking.
"There's a misconception that because we all eat, understanding nutrition is simple. But the question is not whether a certain diet allows you to do well for three days, but can it help you survive to be 100?" said corresponding author Valter Longo, Edna M. Jones Professor of Biogerontology at the USC Davis School of Gerontology and director of the USC Longevity Institute. Longo has a joint appointment at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usc.edu ...
Having trained for and run in marathons in years past may have saved my life when I had the heart attack in June of 2011. The increased blood supply to my heart from that training minimized the damage done by the blockage.
You can choose to live or you can choose to exist.
I choose to live and will enjoy my meat and cheese...
Reminds me I haven't been to fogo de chao recently. I'll have to take the family soon
Don't get me started on SoCo...It used top be a tasty 100 proof liquor; they've morphed it into a 70 proof liqueur that just isn't as satisfying. This from a beer guy, former bartender who has maybe a dozen hard liquor drinks a year.
WHAT is with this craze that we all “go vegan???
they can all KMA! What you eat is your choice and yours alone. Leave me out of it!
Jeeze, first they tell us sitting is like smoking, so some companies installed TREADMILLS at work stations, now meat and cheese take time off our lives with every bite. I’m 64; I take walks when I can, park at the edge of the lot and walk some more, and eat what pleases me (sometimes it’s just a salad... Imagine that!) and -— three days out of the hospital, want to start a mild exercise regimen and build it, while respecting the limitations of my age and conditions (COPD and atrial fibrillation.)
NOTHING is ever enough for these zealots!
/rant off.
exactly... I am so sick and tired of all this crap..
my motto is everything in moderation.. I love my steak, but I don’t eat it every night... weekends....
I love cigars, whiskey...wine... and I’m not going to ever give any of that up....
I do exercise, but I also do that in moderation. I’m not spending every night at the freaking gym, and there are many at my gym that do... I sort of feel sorry for them, to be honest.
Was this study done by the same people that said that global warning will cause untold more murders and rapes?
But the good news is that this negative impact only applies to people under 65. And I got that going for me.
Gave up the smokes but a cheeseburger is the perfect meal. Dairy, Meat, Grain and Vegetables. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and the first thing that pops in my mind is "I'm going to have a cheeseburger for lunch."
Healthwise this is germane. You may want to checkout Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs).
"Food chemists have long studied [the] source of flavor, color, and texture changes in cooked, processed, and stored foods. During the 1970s and 1980s, it was realized that this process, called the Maillard reaction or advanced glycation . . . Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) . . . are implicated, causing the complications of diabetes and aging . . . ." Here.
AGEs is implicated in most (all?) autoimmune diseases and most (all?) aging-related problems.
Maybe all the smokers dying in tobacco studies were actually burger eaters.
How many of those conducting the study are FAT?!?!
or....pasty and anemic?
Every one has ancestors and are going to die, and who in their right mind would want to stay around for a hundred years and read environmental garbage.
I’ll tell my healthy-as-a-horse 88 year old father that his diet is killing him the next time I see him.
So how many Kosher Rabbis were engaged to participate in this study?
I concur; not what it used to be.
note they will be doing a lot of stories on things that now increase your cancer risk to cover up the fukushima radiation coming over here.
I wonder if they are including fish wtih that.
And let us not forget that our good neighbors are welcome to come over & BYOB but that the not-so-good neighbors are not and better not complain about that occasional smoke...nor to propose laws against it.
That will not be tolerated.
(and stop raising taxes on my damned cigars!!! Idiots. They had higher revenues when the taxes were half)
Study conducted in SoCal by vegan researcher - nothing to see here, putting story on /ignore.
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