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Originally Posted by Walrus
The real problem nowadays is that the majority of cooked meat that humans are consuming is "processed meat." Take the Eskimos (before they became westernized) for instance... They ate a diet VERY high in animal fats (whale blubber, fat from seals, etc), yet they had NO instances of heart disease, diabetes, obesity or any other degenerative diseases. Why? Becauese none of the meat they ate was processed. And they also ate a lot of fish too. Which is good for the heart.
And if anyone thinks this just pertains to fast food, they are wrong. Some of the meat you buy in supermarkets is almost as bad. You need to look closely at the labels to make sure antibiotics or hormones weren't added. You want to buy meat where the animals were fed its "natural diet."
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People often make the argument of "50 years ago not as many people had heart attacks", "50 years ago not as many people had cancer"... and while I certainly agree that making changes in your life can give you better chances of not having heart attacks or cancer, I also think that making comparisons to 50 years ago is just plain silly. This isn't 50 years ago. This is 2009. People live until they are 5 million years old anymore.
So yeh, maybe 50 years ago the Eskimos, or any group of people, didn't have as many heart attacks as they do today... you have to ask yourself, how long did they live til?
How many of the posters in this very thread would even be alive at their current age if they were born 50 years earlier? I know I wouldn't have. PR_Tom may not have. Who else has had major medical complications?