A study graduated with shocking results.. Meat increases life expectancy
With the global trend and many medical advice about the importance of giving up eating meat, as being harmful to health, an international team of researchers, led by the University of Adelaide in Australia, has studied meat consumption and its impact on health.
The study concluded with unexpected and surprising results saying that meat supports the prolongation of life expectancy, according to the Medical Express website.
And the “Al Arabiya Net” website quoted the study’s author, a researcher at the University of Adelaide in Biomedicine Wenping Yu, that humans evolved and flourished over millions of years due to their high consumption of meat, saying: “We wanted to look closely at the research that sheds a negative light on meat consumption in The human diet.
"Our team extensively analyzed associations between meat intake and life expectancy, and child mortality, at the global and regional levels, reducing study bias and making our conclusions more representative of the overall health effects of meat eating."
The researchers found that energy consumption from carbohydrate crops (grains and tubers) did not increase life expectancy, and that total meat consumption was associated with increased life expectancy, independent of the competitive effects of total caloric intake, economic affluence, and urban advantages. and obesity.
The study's lead author, University of Adelaide Professor Emeritus Maciej Heinberg, considered that humans have adapted to eating meat from the perspective of their evolution over two million years ago.
"Meat from small and large animals provided optimal nutrition for our ancestors, who developed genetic, physiological and morphological adaptations to eating meat products and we have inherited those adaptations," Henberg explained.
Yanfei Jie, a nutrition expert involved in the study, said: 'I think we need to understand that this may not interfere with the beneficial effect of meat consumption.
Studies looking at the diets of wealthy and highly educated societies look at people with the purchasing power and knowledge to choose plant-based diets that access the full nutrients, usually contained in meat.
They basically replaced meat with all the nutrients that meat provides.”
"Before the introduction of agriculture, 10,000 years ago, meat was a staple of the human diet," says co-author Renata Henberg, a biologist at the University of Adelaide. Today, meat is still a staple in the diets of many people around the world.
"Depending on the small groups of people you study and the types of meat you choose to consider, the scale of meat's role in human health management may vary," Henberg added.
However, when considering all types of meat for the entire population, as in this study, the positive relationship between meat consumption and overall health at the population level is not discontinuous.
Co-author and anthropologist at the University of Adelaide and biologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Arthur Saniotis, explained that the results are in line with other studies showing that grain-based foods have less nutritional value than meat.
"While this is not surprising to many of us, it still needs to be pointed out," Saniotis revealed.
It highlights that meat has its own components that contribute to our overall health beyond just the number of calories consumed, and that without meat in our diet, we may not thrive.”
He concluded his speech by saying, "Our message is that eating meat is beneficial to human health, provided that it is consumed in moderation and that meat is manufactured in an ethical manner."
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