{"id":5821,"date":"2019-10-02T20:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T00:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2019-10-02T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T00:51:12","slug":"the-nonsense-about-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-nonsense-about-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"The nonsense about meat&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8230;which mostly we ignore because, like politics, it\u2019s an  argument you can\u2019t win. Vegans who first based their belief on animal  cruelty, eventually branched out to make health claims which weren\u2019t  substantiated by any evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now,\n though, comes the results of another massive research project which \ncannot find any link between red meat and cancer, heart disease or \ndiabetes. In fact, the researchers also gave a pass to processed meats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s\n also an interesting side note: the scientists say it was hard to come \nup with any conclusions because all the basic research that has fueled \nthe opposition to red meat is flawed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-national-post\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/nationalpost.com\/health\/diet-fitness\/no-beef-isnt-bad-for-you-scientists-conclude-there-is-no-need-to-eat-less-red-or-processed-meat\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which mostly we ignore because, like politics, it\u2019s an argument you can\u2019t win. Vegans who first based their belief on animal cruelty, eventually branched out to make health claims which weren\u2019t substantiated by any evidence. Now, though, comes the results of another massive research project which cannot find any link between red meat and cancer, heart disease or diabetes. In fact, the researchers also gave a pass to processed meats. There\u2019s also an interesting side note: the scientists say it was hard to come up with any conclusions because all the basic research that has fueled the opposition to red meat is flawed. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,13,43,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beef","category-david","category-diet","category-food","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}