This is a great week for meat lovers. First we learn that eating vegetables is not actually a surefire way to reduce your chances of dying:
Now, out of Australia, we find out that eating meat might actually help you live longer!
Eating meat as part of a regular diet could improve overall health and lead to a longer life, a new study has found.
The study, which was conducted by a biomedicine researcher from the University of Adelaide, examined meat consumption in more than 170 countries.
Research found a meat based diet correlates to greater life expectancy, independent of total calorie intake, economic affluence, urban advantages, and obesity, the piece published on Tuesday in the International Journal of General Medicine said.
That's just wonderful to know. It is also...not at all shocking. At least not if you know anything at all about, you know, human physiology.
I mean, there are people who insist that you can live real healthy on a diet of chickpeas and estrogen-rich soy isoflavone supplements. You know the type.
Then there are those of us who recognize that meat is a critical part of the human diet and we can't do away with it without disastrous effects on our health and well-being.
