@Mitch07102

Sounds like a heart attack on a plate.

@LiterateHiker Were the fat from industrial (vegetable) oils, yes. From animal-sourced foods, no. I will likely die from a heart attack or a stroke at some point, but it will be a function of age, not diet.

@Mitch07102

Eating red meat causes inflammation that increases heart attacks, strokes, early death and cancer.

@LiterateHiker BRING IT ON!!!!!

@LiterateHiker Upon closer examination not so, at least not to the extent portrayed in the mass media. Most of the claims about this derive from observational epidemiology, which is notoriously unreliable and often, in fact usually, accounts poorly if at all for confounders. For example in one such claim, a parsing of the data showed that people who eat red meat: are more likely to have excess belly fat, smoke, be overweight, and exercise less. More importantly, when you drill into the science and try to find the causal factors that would make this true, they aren't there. Yes, there is some issue with cured meats, as well as charred and smoked meat. And the blanket statement of ill health from meat is wrong: Last time I checked, people in Hong Kong are the longest-lived (or near it) and eat the most meat of anyone in the world. Long-lived Okinawan's traditionally ate a large amount of pork.

I just finished a ribeye