Tuesday, October 1, 2019

studies and more studies

Here are two recent studies I find interesting.  First a new study has just come out saying that it's ok to eat red meat and processed meat.  I don't eat a lot of red meat, except for an occasional steak when I'm eating at a restaurant.  I do however have a bit of a processed meat habit.  I really like summer sausage and have it for lunch several times a week.  I was a little sceptical about this study and became more so as I've heard various TV doctors slam the indipendent study.  I also began to question motives when, within five minutes of the frist airing of this report, there was a commercial for a steak house.  Probably just a coincidence.  Right?
The second study got me more excited.  It said that snacking on nuts helps you control weight gain.  This sounded really good to me because I do snack on nuts quite often.  I became a little less excited, though, when I heard the final part of the report.  It seems that people who snack on nuts gain, on average, one half pound a year while people who snack on other snacks gain one pound a year.  Forgive me if I'm under-whelmed.

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