Meat Guidelines

Meat Guidelines Are Exposing the Fault Lines in Nutrition Advice

The Skeptical Cardiologist has one important reminder

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• by Anthony Pearson, MDOctober 07, 2019

The Skeptical Cardiologist was recently greeted by headlines announcing that an international panel of 14 unbiased researchers had concluded that it was OK for humans to continue eating red meat and processed meat at current levels.

The startling news was a reversal of what the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society have been telling us for years and threw the nutritional world into a tizzy. The bottom line recommendation, written in language suggesting a lack of certainty in the evidence and lack of confidence in the advice reads as follows:

"The panel suggests that adults continue current unprocessed red meat consumption (weak recommendation, low-certainty evidence). Similarly, the panel suggests adults continue current processed meat consumption (weak recommendation, low-certainty evidence)."/.../