I learned much about nutrition this week, but probably more about the media and nutrition. This is a story that keeps repeating itself, much to my disappointment. I'm ever-hopeful that it'll stop, but that hasn't happened yet. What am I talking about?
- A study about the dangers of red meat has been in the press a lot recently. What does it really tell us? Nothing. Don't worry. Eat all the red meat you want. Here is Mike Eades's analysis and Jimmy Moore's take on it.
- Another study reported that there is no link between animal fat or protein and colorectal cancer. No matter how many times this old wives' tale (that there is a link) gets repeated in the press, it still isn't true.
- Another study on vegetarians found that what we think we know isn't always so. As Eades put it in his blog, "You would think that if a study came out from a prestigious institution (Oxford) published in a top-line scientific journal showing that vegetarians don’t live any longer than non-vegetarians and actually have a higher incidence of some particularly nasty cancers (but slightly lower rates of death from heart disease) it would be newsworthy." But it's not. It hasn't been discussed or covered at all.
- Finally, I've always "known" that nitrates and nitrites are just ready to kill me if I eat too much bacon or hot dogs. What? It's not true? No, it's not true. Don't worry about nitrates and nitrites. There's actually pretty good evidence that they are good for you. Who knew?
That's enough to blow my mind for the day.
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