Health Benefits Of Eating Meat

High quality, unprocessed and naturally-fed meat is considered among the most nutritious foods in the world, despite being blamed for all sorts of Western diseases.

Here are evidence-based health reasons to eat meat:

An incredibly nutritious food

A 100 gram portion of unprocessed and naturally-fed meat contains large amounts of Vitamin B12, B3, B6, Iron, Zinc, Selenium and plenty of other vitamins and minerals. It is also loaded with healthy fats.

There is also an excess of important lesser-known nutrients in meat that cannot be received from plants.

The Creatine forms an energy reserve in the muscles and brain and is found only in animal foods. 

Carnosine functions as a powerful anti-oxidant and provides protection against many degenerative processes. 

DHA and EPA are the active forms of Omega-3 in the human body and found primarily in animal foods.

Meat does not raise your risk of cardiovascular disease or diabetes

A massive study from Harvard that looked at data from 20 studies with a total of 1,218,380 individuals, found no association between unprocessed red meat, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Claims that meat consumption contributes to serious diseases were based on the fact that meat is high in saturated fat, which was found not to be associated with heart disease, according to recent studies.

Processed meat on the other hand, was found to have significantly increased health risks that may lead to chronic diseases.

Meat contains high-quality protein

The proteins provided by meat contain all the amino acids that a human body needs, and they are associated with increased muscle mass and bone health.

 

Some studies show the existence of a weak link between processed (not unprocessed) red meat consumption and cancer.

The studies also suggest that the way meat is cooked, not the meat itself, is the reason behind the cancer risk, because carcinogens can form when meat is cooked excessively.