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pepharytheworm said:
generic-user-1 said:
pepharytheworm said:
Whether or not we can all agree if in general eating meat is bad or good, I think we can all agree that too much is definitely bad and eating more vegetables is good.

And in the US we eat too much meat and dairy and not enough veggies.

veggies are the most useless food you can eat, there is just nothing to gain from it. 

you can eat paper salad and is has the same value than normal salad.

fruits on the other hand are important, they are a good way of consuming vitamins, and contain important sugar.

people from the us eat to much not selfcooked stuff, thats the main problem.

and they use the wrong sugar, and to much soy products.  those two things are realy problematic. HFCSs cause metabolic syndrome and soy products make you infertil and destroy your guts.


Spinach and Broccoli say hi. But seriouly when I say veggies I mean all edible plant products and unprocessed

fruits arent veggis...  and broccoli and spinach arnt good at anything, they are just less bad than other veggies. paper is the most healthy salad, it does everything salad should do, and isnt full of poison like many other salads.



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generic-user-1 said:
pepharytheworm said:
Whether or not we can all agree if in general eating meat is bad or good, I think we can all agree that too much is definitely bad and eating more vegetables is good.

And in the US we eat too much meat and dairy and not enough veggies.

veggies are the most useless food you can eat, there is just nothing to gain from it. 

you can eat paper salad and is has the same value than normal salad.

fruits on the other hand are important, they are a good way of consuming vitamins, and contain important sugar.

people from the us eat to much not selfcooked stuff, thats the main problem.

and they use the wrong sugar, and to much soy products.  those two things are realy problematic. HFCSs cause metabolic syndrome and soy products make you infertil and destroy your guts.


Veggies aren't the most useless thing you can eat, it's the complete opposite. The way how modern food is refined, it lacks most of the nutrients that are hard or impossible to have elsewhere if you do not eat organ meat. Fruits are much lower in nutrients than veggies. I typically eat between one and two kilograms of veggies a day, which is 50-100 grams of carbohydrates.

 

But you're right about eating too little selfcooked stuff and all the stuff that's used to replace fat with.



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FIT_Gamer said:
bdbdbd said:

This was the first link I could find:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3267662/

 

If fat makes you fat, how come low carb equals low energy? Look, it doesn't matter what you eat, as long as your energy intake is higher than consuption - that's what makes you fat. The worst thing you can eat is high carb and high fat, as that results in high energy intake. Your bloodsugar controls your eating, that depends on the glycemic load, meaning it doesn't virtually matter if you eat 100 or 20 grams fat with your 300 grams carbs, because the amount of carbs controls your appetite anyway. Based on studies, low carb and high fat is the most effective diet to lose weight - because it results in spontanious reduction in energy intake (due to steady bloodsugar levels and improved leptin metabolism).

 

Cancer cells feed on carbs - is different from causing it. Keep in mind, just like people eating LCHF, vegans do not eat many of those foods that cause inflammation (that is the "direct" cause of cancer). Vegans eat less processed food, no bread, less (non-natural) trans fats. And many of the vegans I know (that isn't many) eat low carb and high fat.

Thanks for link. When people live on low carb diets, such as paleo or ketogenic. Your energy levels go way down. Which why most people on those diets drink coffee and other caffeine drinks all day just to function. Same with body building. A lot of competitive body builders go on low carb diets when cutting and lose strength and have low energy. 

Most raw food or mostly raw food vegans are on 80/10/10(80% carbs/10% protein/10% fat) or something close. I myself do 70/20/10. Really unless they  are vegan body builder or strong man, fat intake is usually pretty low.


Energy levels do not go down - for the most people it's the complete opposite (such as I). On a ketogenic diet you seem to be too energetic, that's at least what they tell me. There's this adaptation period, usually a week or two, that you DO feel having lower energy level, but after that...

How you should eat depends on how you exercise. If you exercise high intensity (unaerobic), then it's carbs you should eat to fill your glycogen reserves, and low intensity (aerobic) is much better on low carb. People on low carb seem to drink butter coffee, of bulletproof coffee, but I don't see people drinking more coffee than they did on a high carb diet. The worst thing you can do is eat low carb and exercise with high intensity. It's what's going to eat away your muscles and make you sick if you keep doing it a longer period.



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generic-user-1 said:
pepharytheworm said:

Spinach and Broccoli say hi. But seriouly when I say veggies I mean all edible plant products and unprocessed

fruits arent veggis...  and broccoli and spinach arnt good at anything, they are just less bad than other veggies. paper is the most healthy salad, it does everything salad should do, and isnt full of poison like many other salads.

You are getting the culinary definition confused with the biological defintion. Do tomatos, squash, avocados and zucchini confuse you?

 

Vegetable

noun

1.
any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the 
tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion,asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.



LurkerJ said:
JRPGfan said:


http://coffeeandhealth.org/topic-overview/references-8/

All the stuff I posted about "coffee reduceing cancer risk", is from this page, that has references to case studies.

Theres "source criticism" (not sure of the english word), but they arnt just makeing sh*t up or pulling random numbers out of thin air.

I am sorry if you felt personally targeted by my post. That was NOT my intention, we are all learners here. I used to blindly trust these studies and take what they say as unquestionable facts. I found out later that it isn't black and white. You can make any claim support it with medical evidence if you selectively publish studies that support those claims and skip publishing the ones that don't.

I've been reading more about biostatistics lately and try to learn how to dissect these studies and criticize them. ALL studies are prone to bias and errors. Learning how to do that is actually a big part of studying medicine nowadays, one of my friends is a physician and he was the one to open my eyes to the fact that "studies and research" doesn't automatically mean "facts". 

I hope everyone watches the videos and read the articles in my previous post to grasp the importance of not believing every article you read online, and I am not talking about just coffee and meat here.


Having read many scientific studies in my day I can relate to you to some degree. While studies can supply us with interesting insights into a variety of topics, studies like these tend to be kind of iffy in my eyes.

Do I think that a diet extremely heavy in processed foods and red meats increases your risk for cancer? I think it actually does. But does that guarantee it? No.

 

You also have to think about the lifestyle of someone who would have a very heavy diet in such foods. They might smoke, or not exercise, not have balanced diet with fruits and veggies etc. thus increasing the chances of cancer on that front. 

Also think about those who eat processed foods and red meats in moderation. Does their chances of getting cancer increase with each piece of bacon they eat? This study might make people say yes but if we take a a wider view of their life and see that such a person practices healthy habits on many fronts then I can't see their chances of getting cancer increasing all that much. 



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And lack of meat leads to low testosterone. Pick your poison.



Lawlight said:
And lack of meat leads to low testosterone. Pick your poison.


Low testosterone sounds better than cancer. But the article was about red meat not all meat.



pepharytheworm said:
Lawlight said:
And lack of meat leads to low testosterone. Pick your poison.


Low testosterone sounds better than cancer. But the article was about red meat not all meat.


No, it was about processed meat, hot dogs and burgers, not red meat.



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Lawlight said:
And lack of meat leads to low testosterone. Pick your poison.


I must have naturally high testosterone then. I haven't eaten meat in over 10 years, my sex drive is through the roof. Im always in mood to do the electric boogaloo lol.



FIT_Gamer said:
Lawlight said:
And lack of meat leads to low testosterone. Pick your poison.


I must have naturally high testosterone then. I haven't eaten meat in over 10 years, my sex drive is through the roof. Im always in mood to do the electric boogaloo lol.

Same here, people such as you and i have been on both sides of the fence and have lived the differences, meat is a dead energy and i dont miss it at all.