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Heart disease
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fort have been documented.
And no one has the answer.
But those studies are, for
the large part, ignored by
the government and by
others in the anti-meat
movement. And consumers
certainly hear very little
about them.
Heart disease is not the on
ly disease linked to red meat
consumption.
Cancer has been thrown in
for good measure and it
scares just about everybody.
The theory is alive and
well and enjoying govern
ment promotion that as
dietary intake of animal fat
increases there is a cor
responding increase in
cancer, specifically breast
and colon.
Once again, that’s
debatable. There are too
many studies contradicting,
that theory to consider it an
operand shut case.
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For example, people in
both the Netherlands and
Finland have been found to
consume 100 gm. of animal
fat per day. In the
Netherlands that accounts
for 65 per cent of the total fat
intake and in Finland 88 per
cent. But the Netherlands
has twice the incidence of
breast and colon cancer as
Finland.
In another study, higher
economic classes in Cali,
Columbia, have four times
the incidence of colon cancer
than the lower classes even
though the higher classes
consume less animal fat
than do the lower.
Even the so-called rising
incidence of heart disease
and cancer, often employed
as a scare tactic in the move
ment against beef consump
tion, deserves a second look.
A decrease in deaths from
infectious diseases and from
malnutrition must be taken
into consideration as must
an increase in life expec
tancy (which amounts to 20
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years since the turn of the
century).
Then, one must realize
that cancer and heart
disease are degenerative by
nature, that the probability
they will strike increases
with age. So is the problem
disease? Or the inevitability
of death?
Actually, deaths from car
diovascular disease and
cancer (except lung) have
decreased on an age
adjusted basis during the Ist
30 years - coinciding, by the
way, with an increase in per
capita beef consumption.
Now, here’s the clincher,
the final straw: polyun
saturated fats.
The government loves
them as do others involved in
the anti-beef movement. But
beware - polyunsaturates
may actually prove hazar
dous to your health.
In a study of people who
survived heart attacks,
those allowed to eat anything
they wanted had a
significantly higher survival
rate than those put on a
polyunsaturated fat diet.
Another study indicated
that cancer patients seemed
to lose natural defenses
against the disease when
placed on diets high in
polyunsaturates.
Studies indicate polyun
saturates, the darlings
through recent dietary
drama, recommended by the
government as animal fat
replacements could, in fact,
be harmful to health.
They are characterized by
chemically altered bonds
called trans-fatty acids;
evidence exists that these
trans-fatty acids affect the
functions of cell membranes,
apparently allowing cancer
causing agents to more easi
ly permeate cell walls.
Hie alarming thing here is
that persons following cur
rent government dietary
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recommendations, sub
stituting vegetable fats for
animal fats, many actually
be subjecting themselves to
an unusually high dose of a
cancer-related agent.
Funny thing, not many
articles in popular
magazines discuss tran
sfatty acids. No vegetable oil
ads mention them. Gover
nment dietary recom
mendations ignore
them. But they do exist and
consumers need to be aware
of them.
Polyunsaturates, like the
rest of the red meat con
troversy, demand more
study. And until more study
brings in more conclusive
evidence one could question
the intelligence of recom
mending a national diet
change.
This leads to one question.
Why? Why the scare tactics?
The propaganda? Why is the
government urging a change
in diet?
No one knows for sure. But
with so much at stake, it is
unfortunate that no clear-cut
conclusions have been
reached in the dietary
debate. It is sad that so much
effort is being expended to
connect cancer and heart
disease with diet and red
meats, while perhaps real
causes are going undetected.
Some scientists indicate
it. may become more dif
ficult to get government fun
ding for research unless they
support the popular theories,
and money to research
polyunsaturates is hard to
come by - from a govern
ment supposedly concerned
with a nation’s health.
But to arbitrarily change a
diet by eliminating a
nutritious food is hardly the
sort of thing one would ex
pect from a responsible
government. And in this age
of consumer awareness it is
amazing that the govern
ment is getting away with it.
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