Red meat and dairy are rich and unique sources of essential nutrients that cannot be found elsewhere. Diminishing these foods in our diets will—and in fact already
has—resulted in nutritional deficiencies.
That's from Nina Teicholz, a science journalist, author and founder of the Nutrition Coalition. She writes:
Indeed, just this week,
a study reported that some 40% of women ages 12-21 in America suffer from iron deficiency, which can result in immunological weakness, decreased energy production, poor cognitive function, and developmental delays in the babies of these women. The type of iron humans can easily absorb (heme) comes not from spinach—sorry, Popeye--but from red meat. (Only
about 10 % of the iron in plant foods can be absorbed) Other nutrients mainly found in meat and dairy in a form that humans can well absorb are vitamins B12, A, and D3 as well as calcium. Avoiding these foods puts us at nutritional risk—a gravely important issue for human health that is inexplicably ignored by most food and nutrition writers today.
In randomized, controlled trials in the 60s and 70s,: saturated fats were found to have no effect on cardiovascular or total mortality, and either no or only a mild effect on clinical events (heart attacks, strokes, etc). However:
This enormous quantity of data was largely swept under the rug—or 'buried'—for decades, presumably because it didn’t support the then-well-established dogma that saturated fats cause heart disease, an idea adopted not only by the AHA but soon after, the National Institutes of Health and most U.S. public health institutions. The science was supposed to be ‘settled.’
Remember what "the experts" told us about vaccines, masks and lockdowns.
~ Gobha