Goal Obsession Connected & Affected

Red Meat is not a Killer

posted by Mariessa
March 19th, 2012

I bet Chris eats red meat

The headlines, the flashing lights, the smoke…the mirrors. About once a year the media finds a “scientific study” to share concerning red meat, and launches it at the world for shock value. The most recent being the LA Times Harvard study claiming that red meat is bad for you. Why else would they publish unscientific crap? Oh, wait. The average Joe doesn’t care much about how the science was carried out just that it is labeled “science”. There are a few unscientific details that are cause for question. The data collection was a questionnaire given once every four years over a twenty year study. The participants were asked to remember what they ate throughout the year. Can you remember what you ate last week? Meat and veggies. That’s all I’ve got. They did ask about whole grains which are nasty in their own right, but did not take any refined grains into consideration. Burger bun anyone?

Hooray for red meat!

Bias is another issue. People guessing at what they ate is bad enough. Now they are being asked to remember how much they ate. People rarely underestimate good food choices, and rarely overestimate bad food choices. If you’ve ever tried the zone diet, you know what I’m talking about. You weigh and measure your food quantity for a while, and then start eyeballing. It doesn’t take long for the estimates of things you like to increase and the things you don’t to decrease.

Red meat helps you squat and makes you younger.

This study is considered an observational type study, not an experiment. There was no control: no nutritional control, no quantity control, no accuracy in gathering information. That means there was no baseline to compare a change to. This study “showed” that most of the heavy meat eaters also smoked, drank, and/or were inactive. If they performed the same study at CFSB, they would find many heavy meat eaters who were very active, and drank on the weekends.  Check our blood workups. Oh, wait that wasn’t part of the study.

Here are a few links to see what I read and what the experts had to say:

www.marksdailyapple.com

www.robbwolf.com

http://chrispconstantlyvaried.blogspot.com/2012/03/red-meat-study-here-we-go-again.html

http://www.cavemandoctor.com/2012/03/13/red-meat-consumption-and-mortality/

 

Workout of the Day 3/20/2012

Level 1

A.
3 Rounds
7-12 Deadlifts
30 sec rest
20 Double Unders (or attempts)
30 sec rest
B.
 AMRAP 10
21 Kettlebell Swings (16kg/12kg)
12 Pull-Ups
9 Deadlifts (135/95)
C. (Optional)
2 Rounds
10 Hollow Rocks
10 Reverse lunge (each leg)
Level 2
A.
3 Rounds
3 Deadlifts
30 sec rest
30-40 Double Unders
30 sec rest
B.
AMRAP 10
5 Rounds
21 Kettlebell Swings (1.5/1)
12 Pull-Ups
Then finish the remainder of the time doing: Handstand Push-Ups
C. (Optional)
2 Rounds
10 Hollow Rocks
10 Reverse lunge (each leg)
Fundamentals
A.
3 Rounds
10 Push-press
10 Burpees
100 m run
B.
AMRAP 12
5 Pull-ups
10 Push-ups
15 Box jumps

Level 1 WOD

Level 2 WOD

Mobility WOD



  • Brian

    Just because I like to be controversial (and it was posted as my facebook status before I read this)

    http://www.weightymatters.ca/2012/03/what-reading-that-white-rice-and.html

    NOWWWWW before all the paleo-ites get pissed at me, let me say that Asian countries have subsisted on diets heavily rice-based for a long LONGGGGG time and historically had long life expectancy and low disease rates. I think it is more the introduction of western foods (read: McDonalds and co) that did a lot of these people in.

    And also, I love red meat and no study is going to get me to stop eating it. Just goes to show you how faulty many of these “scientific” studies are

  • Vince257

    Usain Bolt wasn’t raised on “red meat” and Carl Lewis was a veggie. All the International Rugby players I trained with, weren’t fan at all of “red meat”. But those people are more interested in being efficient, reliable than looking at themselves in mirrors…

    What you call “red meat”, industrial/trafficked(Kobe included) meat from dubious cattle can hardly be compared to real red meat. Go get so moose in Alaska and some real long range beef with Argentina’s cow boys and you’ll understand what I mean. I also like taureau from camargue if meat isn’t trafficked.

    “Red meat helps you squat and makes you younger”… you mean steroids and other hormones injected to the cattle, then to you? It is short term effect, with potentially plenty long term troubles. But, yep it is kinda addictive.

    • Cody

      Vince, if you read the links posted, we address exactly what you are talking about. Real red meat is grass-fed, healthy beef from pastured, humanely raised animals, not feed lot beef given steroids and hormones. And the “red meat” in the study includes hamburgers, pink slime, and other sub-par meats…

  • Hilary

    Is there any truth to limiting your intake of red meat? My first full time month at CFSB was fueled by at least one bison burger or steak a day and my digestive system was not happy. In fact the free range steaks seemed to cause the most problems. Maybe the lack of hormones was a shock to my “domesticated” system? I also grew up eating primarily poultry and fish for protein. After cutting way down on the steak I do feel a lot better.

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