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Want to Live Longer? Hold the Red Meat

Posted March 13, 2012 1:41 PM

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People who ate red meat on a regular basis were found more likely to die over a 20-30-year period.

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03/13/2012 5:08 PM

MMMM....... The double Burger in my belly has me satisfied.

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03/13/2012 6:48 PM

Another idiotic piece of crap propaganda.

In order to call red meat the culprit, they would have to eliminate every single other commonality between the people that died...............including genetic predisposition.

I'm so tired of hearing this garbage.

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03/13/2012 7:59 PM

What ever happened to dying of old age?

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03/13/2012 8:36 PM

In a stunning new study, they have found that birth leads to death.

We need to ban birth.

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03/14/2012 1:26 AM

We need to ban birth.

They're doing that

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03/14/2012 1:32 AM

I agree.... Oh wait, my steak is done! Perfect! Ribeye - medium-rare with a modest amount of singed, tasty fat around the edge. Gotta go!

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03/14/2012 5:58 AM

This reminds me of them saying that red meat doesn't digest, and people end up with pounds of it rotting in their colons...........................the colonoscopies I get every five years say that they are either ignorant or liars.

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03/14/2012 1:01 AM

Take two new born twin same (male) or female with both normal health standard.Keep them in a lab,feed one with hamburger and another with meat daily and wait 28-30 years.May be meat one would die or hamburger one will die soon or both will live continue.If continue then again wait 28-30- years.If still continue living then finally wait another few more years you will get the answer but my friend you have do check another group again for final proof to convince the people.

Ha ha its a joke but your suggestion may be correct, thanks for suggest.

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03/14/2012 2:13 AM

Nor does the test take into account the quality of the red meat. Was the meat fed chemicals to promote fast growth in minimal time or long sustainable life food stocks? You are what you eat, eats.

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03/14/2012 4:25 AM

Maybe those who are genetically programmed to die young, have equally a tendency to eat red meat

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03/14/2012 7:59 AM

Yeah, a classic logical fallacy known as 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc' (after this, therefore because of this); also known as the error of thinking 'correlation equals causation'.

What I thought was really funny, though, was this photo, with the note below that said 'Click to enlarge this image'. (Oh! It's a cheeseburger. Good thing they had an enlarged version, 'cause otherwise I wouldn't have recognized it. Somebody piled rabbit food on it.)

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03/14/2012 9:07 AM

I'm a vegetarian. What do I care?

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03/14/2012 9:18 AM

I wonder what they spent the rest of the research grant on, after this was published - a blow-out at an Angus Steakhouse, perhaps?

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03/14/2012 7:27 PM

I wonder if they allowed for meat with or without the "pink slime."

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03/16/2012 2:15 AM

No problem i only eat Soylent green

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03/16/2012 8:23 AM

If I ever have to decide on a choice to kill myself. I chose eating red meat.

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03/16/2012 10:43 PM

I'm going with red meat, smokes, booze and happiness.

I've seen enough ugliness to know to live each day as if it's your last.................within reason of course.

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03/18/2012 4:50 AM

I didn't know we could have more than one choice.

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03/18/2012 11:13 AM

Sure you can.

The only thing I'm gonna say goodbye to, are the smokes. Getting off of those this year. Too damned expensive.

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03/18/2012 2:28 PM

Smokes, one habit I never got.

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03/18/2012 2:53 PM

It's a nasty one. I quit for a year, got drunk one time, and ended up right back on them. I mean, I got drunk a lot of times..................just never succumbed to the temptation for a cigarette but once......................that was all it took.

An old buddy of mine told me that I need to quit before I turn 50, which is this year. He smoked a couple of packs a day and he's 80 now.

I have no intention of living too long.

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