Colpo Finishes the "Fake Science" Smackdown

http://anthonycolpo.com/?p=3143

The last one on this topic:

The researchers divided meat intake into five quintiles, from lowest to highest. And as you peruse the table, something quickly becomes blindingly obvious: The more red meat people ate in these studies, the more likely they were to live unhealthier lives overall.

Remember how I said this paper covered two studies? The first was the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS), the baseline data of which shows that as red meat intake rose, so too did the prevalence of all the following:

• Physical inactivity
• Smoking (the highest quintile of red meat consumption had three times as many smokers!)
• Diabetes

Those who ate the most red meat also drank more alcohol, were less likely to use multivitamin supplements, and had a self-reported daily caloric intake over 800 calories more than those in the lowest quartile (2396 vs 1659 cals/day, respectively…more on that later).

So in HPFS, those who ate the most red meat also tended to live lifestyles that were unhealthier all-round.