Meat Consumption is Positively Associated with Life Expectancy

[Kamaji]

Study: Meat Consumption is Positively Associated with Life Expectancy

by Enrico de Lazaro
Feb 22, 2022

A team of scientists from Australia, Italy, Poland and Switzerland has examined the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level based on ecological data published by the United Nations agencies.

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In the study, Dr. You and co-authors examined the overall health effects of total meat consumption in 175 countries around the world.

The researchers found that the consumption of energy from carbohydrate crops (grains and tubers) does not lead to greater life expectancy, and that total meat consumption correlates to greater life expectancy, independent of the competing effects of total calories intake, economic affluence, urban advantages, and obesity.

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Source:  http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/meat-consumption-life-expectancy-10577.html

[Smokin Joe]

When you think about it, hunter gatherers ate a lot of meat and other animal protein, but starches were not really readily available until farming. Meat-eating is in most of our genetics, it is the diet our ancestors thrived on (no tofu eaters in my ancestry). You don't feed a gas engine diesel, you feed it what it was built to run on. Same with humans if you want a good result.