Saturday, July 6, 2019

Meat vs. Carbs

Two contrasting points for you today! Should we:

1) limit our red meat intake? That heightens your risk of dying by 10-13%. :O

or

2) limit our intake of carbs? Wrong again: that will increase your probability of coming down with Alzheimer's. :( So I guess we should eat only vegetable, fruits, chicken, and fish...?

That's pretty much the right answer, actually, according to this 2019 article in leading health journal the Lancet (Lancet link here, found online here). "Transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts, including a greater than 50% reduction in global consumption of unhealthy foods, such as red meat and sugar, and a greater than 100% increase in consumption of healthy foods, such as nuts, fruits, vegetables, and legumes."