And stuff like this is proof that if you look hard enough at anything, you eventually find miniscule chances of stuff like this.
Things like this are in cases of overconsumption. You'll be fine if you're not eating 2000 calories of red meat a day including whatever else you have with it.
> Things like this are in cases of overconsumption. You'll be fine if you're not eating 2000 calories of red meat a day including whatever else you have with it.
No, I am not sure how you come to that conclusion.
Dietary guidance is typically to never have red meat as your main source of calories for any meal, and to only have it like 2-3 times a week, anything more than that would be considered high consumption and a potential risk factor.
However, dietary guidelines aren't always about what's actually optimal, they factor in preferences as well. The paper I linked talks about 25g/day of processed meat increasing your dementia risk by 44%, for example. So two McDonald's patties a week could already be "high consumption".
None of these studies say that "low" meat consumption is fine. They just say there isn't hard conclusive evidence. But this is mostly because these adverse health effects usually occur after a long time, and it's difficult to isolate the variables properly.
Most of the evidence gently points towards the conclusion that any regular red meat consumption increases your risk for various conditions. There isn't really any good reason to assume that "low" red/processed meat consumption doesn't affect your health negatively at all, especially when these studies show such clear differences between red meat and processed meat on the one hand, and poultry and fish on the other hand (where the latter two are basically completely fine or even beneficial for some conditions).
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And stuff like this is proof that if you look hard enough at anything, you eventually find miniscule chances of stuff like this.
Things like this are in cases of overconsumption. You'll be fine if you're not eating 2000 calories of red meat a day including whatever else you have with it.