McDougall isn't suggesting that all meat-eaters  have such diseases, AFAIK, just that eating meat does lead to such illnesses. The number of studies damning meat-consumption is too vast to be just dismissed. And given that there are other studies which show that increasing animal-food-consumption in one's diet(and thereby, logically, lowering consumption of other(non-palaeo) foods) increases risk of mortality etc., that means that the evidence is rather difficult to dispute. Now, my view is that while the evidence is clear-cut there is a problem with the conclusion. The scientists assume that since cooked/processed meats are harmful, that raw meats are harmful as well, which is not scientific at all.

 

Geoff





 

> 
> --- On Sat, 1/23/10, Robert Kesterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > From: Robert Kesterson <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Dr. McDougall
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 12:55 PM
> > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:33:04 -0600,
> > Robin Temple <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi All,
> > >   To further stir the pot, have any of
> > you heard of this guy before?  He
> > > was on a talk show yesterday on my local NPR radio
> > station.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Robin
> > > _The McDougall  Newsletter - When Your Friends
> > Ask, "Why did you quit
> > > meat?"_ (http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/may/meat.htm)
> > 
> > I've never heard of him, but from a quick read of the
> > linked site, I'd say he's misinformed.  I eat meat or
> > eggs at just about every meal (all of it, I might add, from
> > pastured animals raised as nature intended), and I don't
> > have any of the health problems or risk factors that he says
> > "nearly all" meat eaters have.
> > 
> > --
> >   Robert Kesterson
> >   [log in to unmask]
> > 
> 
> 
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