{"id":14348,"date":"2019-10-08T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:50:01","slug":"red-meat-may-not-be-so-bad-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/nutrition\/red-meat-may-not-be-so-bad-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Meat May Not Be So Bad After All"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you feel guilty eating red meat due to all the warnings about cancer, cardiovascular problems and even premature death? Well, there\u2019s good news. New guidelines say eating red meat may not be as bad as once thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why was there a reevaluation?<\/h3>\n

An independent research group, the NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations Consortium), issued the new guidelines after reviewing the existing evidence about red meat and negative health outcomes. The group\u2019s reasons included:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The existing recommendations were mostly based on observational studies, which don\u2019t typically establish cause and effect.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The existing recommendations don\u2019t report the \u201cabsolute magnitude\u201d of any possible effects.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The organizations that created the existing guidelines didn\u2019t conduct or access \u201crigorous systematic reviews of the evidence.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The organizations that created the existing guidelines were limited in in addressing conflicts of interest.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The organizations that created the existing guidelines didn\u2019t \u201cexplicitly address population values and preferences.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Reevaluating red meat\u2019s risks<\/h3>\n

    The NutriRECS team conducted five systematic reviews by looking at dozens of randomized trials and observational studies and evaluated the effects of red meat consumption based on the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations) method.<\/span><\/p>\n

    They concluded that, although there\u2019s a link between eating red meat and a risk poor health outcomes, they couldn\u2019t prove that it was significant.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Likewise, they couldn\u2019t prove that there was a significantly reduced risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease or early death for people who cut back on their consumption of processed and unprocessed red meat.<\/span><\/p>\n

    To be clear, the review was only looking for evidence regarding human health. The NutriRECS team wasn\u2019t addressing issues about sustainability or animal welfare, which are also concerns regarding a person\u2019s decision to eat or not eat red meat.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cWe are, however, sympathetic to animal welfare and environmental concerns,\u201d says author Dr. Bradley Johnston from Dalhousie University. \u201cA number of guideline panel members [have] eliminated or reduced their personal red and processed meat intake for these reasons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Do you feel guilty eating red meat due to all the warnings about cancer, cardiovascular problems and even premature death? Well, there\u2019s good news. New guidelines say eating red meat may not be as bad as once thought. Why was there a reevaluation? An independent research group, the NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations Consortium), issued the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[1100,1101],"class_list":["post-14348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition","tag-nurtrition","tag-red-meat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}