Your definition of metabolic syndrome matches mine, I think you're talking past me. It's the clustering of metabolic diseases, like heart disease and obesity.
> Mass consumption of meats processed with nitrites (producing nitrates as a byproduct) goes back at least several centuries, maybe a millennium.
Incorrect, at least in what you mean by 'mass'. We eat significantly more meat now than 50 years ago.
> However, people with metabolic syndrome who switch to an all-meat diet, even if the meat is factory-farmed, tend to improve rather than worsening.
There's a few huge, glaring problems here:
1. You made this up, this isn't actually the conclusion of any study anywhere.
2. Any restrictive diet, yes ANY, can and will cause you to lose weight and therefore work against 'metabolic syndrome' (which, again, is not a disease, it's a syndrome). Yes, eating less calories WILL cause you to lose weight. You can achieve the same thing by eating only sugar, or only bread, or only cheese.
3. We know, for a fact, that diets with high meat consumption are correlated with obesity, heart disease, etc. We know diets LOW in meat consumption, particularly red meat or meat high in saturated fats, are correlated with lower CVD risk and longer longevity. Do with that what you will.
And, if you still don't buy many decades of studies on this, you can also just use your intuition.
Look around the world at where we see obesity and where we don't. We see it in the UK, Canada, the US. We don't see it in Japan, parts of Asia, and the Mediterranean. What's the difference?
Those places have a culture of eating significantly less meat, especially red meat. They also have a culture of eating smaller portions. Many of them have a culture of walking. Many of them still eat processed foods.
And, none of this even touches on the carcinogenic factors of red meat. We know, for sure, red meat is carcinogenic - it's classified the same as alcohol and tobacco.
Really what's going on is people are trading off stuff they think might be bad for stuff we know is bad.
There's a lot of people who won't drink a diet coke because it's 'poison' but will happily eat bacon. When we know bacon causes cancer, but we don't know if aspartame does, despite us studying it to death.
It's a form of self destruction. People think to be healthy you must deprive yourself, you must suffer. It's just not true.
> Mass consumption of meats processed with nitrites (producing nitrates as a byproduct) goes back at least several centuries, maybe a millennium.
Incorrect, at least in what you mean by 'mass'. We eat significantly more meat now than 50 years ago.
> However, people with metabolic syndrome who switch to an all-meat diet, even if the meat is factory-farmed, tend to improve rather than worsening.
There's a few huge, glaring problems here:
1. You made this up, this isn't actually the conclusion of any study anywhere.
2. Any restrictive diet, yes ANY, can and will cause you to lose weight and therefore work against 'metabolic syndrome' (which, again, is not a disease, it's a syndrome). Yes, eating less calories WILL cause you to lose weight. You can achieve the same thing by eating only sugar, or only bread, or only cheese.
3. We know, for a fact, that diets with high meat consumption are correlated with obesity, heart disease, etc. We know diets LOW in meat consumption, particularly red meat or meat high in saturated fats, are correlated with lower CVD risk and longer longevity. Do with that what you will.
And, if you still don't buy many decades of studies on this, you can also just use your intuition.
Look around the world at where we see obesity and where we don't. We see it in the UK, Canada, the US. We don't see it in Japan, parts of Asia, and the Mediterranean. What's the difference?
Those places have a culture of eating significantly less meat, especially red meat. They also have a culture of eating smaller portions. Many of them have a culture of walking. Many of them still eat processed foods.
And, none of this even touches on the carcinogenic factors of red meat. We know, for sure, red meat is carcinogenic - it's classified the same as alcohol and tobacco.
Really what's going on is people are trading off stuff they think might be bad for stuff we know is bad.
There's a lot of people who won't drink a diet coke because it's 'poison' but will happily eat bacon. When we know bacon causes cancer, but we don't know if aspartame does, despite us studying it to death.
It's a form of self destruction. People think to be healthy you must deprive yourself, you must suffer. It's just not true.