Is meat eating really unhealthy?!

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no! meat is very very healthy! but not ALL meat is, like mcdonalds meat, that is extremely unhealthy because it is procesed and stuff. but fresh lean meat is very healthy! and it is true that if you have too much meat it can make weight loss a bit harder but it can also be a good way to lose weight if you know what you are doing, if that makes any sense.

As long as you are eating properly, just about any food can be added to a healthy diet. Everyone has a certain amount of nutrients they need to function properly, as well as a limit on the amount of "bad" things they take in such as fat, cholesterol, etc. Meat is a food that is high in fat and cholesterol. Too much of any food is bad. Many people eat far too much meat in their diet for it to be healthy.

I personally think meat can be an option in a healthy diet, if one chooses to eat it. However, since meat can often be unhealthy(its high in saturated fat, cholesterol, etc. It can be cooked to make it more unhealthy by frying, or adding salt, oil, etc), there are a lot more healthy options.

Weight loss is about eating a healthy diet, and burning more calories than consumed. What constitutes a "diet expert". If one is eating properly, exercising as they should, etc a person should not need to be on a diet. Unfortunately, many people eat junk, eat when they are not hungry, don't exercise, etc which is why they need to lose weight. If these people ate properly(fresh, whole unprocessed food, exersize, only eat when hungry and until satisfied(not full)), we would see less people in need of going on a diet.

It's true that meat eaters are 50% more likly to get heart disease, 40% more likly to get cancer and 88% more likly to get diobeties. Don't get me wrong you can be healthy on an omnivorus diet and you do get health benifits from meat. Meat like burgers, fried chicken, chicken nugets and all that $hit is very unhealthy and helps contribute to our growing obesity epedemoc (ever seen an obeese veg*n?). Hethier meats like grilled chicken and stuff aren't as bad for you with their lower amounts if cholesterall but still it takes 18 hours longer than regular food to travel in your body. So yes I guess some meat is healthy but it still can cause cancer, stroke ect.

Meat contains high concentrations of chemicals that has been pumped into the animal including hormones, pesticides and herbicides. eating meat exposes you to over 20,000 different drugs, including sterols, antibiotics, growth hormones and other vetinary drugs that are given to livestock animals. This means that meat eaters are getting secondary consumption of antibotics.Meat will always be high in cholestrial because the fat is the flesh and you cannot remove saturated fats by methods of cooking.

It's HOW our meat is produced that is wrong and unhealthy, for us as well as for our planet. The meat industry polutes like nothing else in this world! And the truth is people are consuming chronically depressed and sick animals that do not even discover the glory of the sun. Cows are pumped with anti-biotics among whatever other medication is required in order to mask their diseases. When you eat most meats, you are actually consuming a dose of nasty chemicals and by-products and high doses of uric acid (Urine!) Cows Milk is just as bad. It's a medication-chemical cocktail with traces of blood and feces floating around in it. Also, we cook meat too much and when this happens.. whatever nutrients it had are damaged.

Organic free range chicken, turkey and egss are very healthy consumed in moderation. Small amounts of other organic meats will not hurt you. And Fish is far better for you than meat. Fatty fish like Wild Salmon contain Omega 3 fatty acids and very high quality protein. Once in a while, I will go to a quality sushi place and eat real sushi - raw salmon and tuna. This is probably the healthiest animal product to eat.

Meat isn't unhealthy at all, my silly vegetarian brother thinks it is though. It really depends what type of meat. Lean chicken, extremely healthy, high in protein, same with lean beef, high in iron. When you get to your sausages and bacon, thats where it gets a bit iffy, but you can still suasages (and bacon to some extent

The meat fat is good for you, depending on what you do. If you're an exercise-phobia obese female then yes meat probably isn't a good choice. But if you're a fit bodybuilder male (myself) then meat and the fat on it is excellent for protein, nutrients, and various energy that we use to build muscle and keep our bodies and minds focused.

Each persons "calorie" intake is different, such as each persons fat, carbs, sugars, etc. You wouldn't feed a dog a lot of chocolate, so why would you feed a really fat chick some too?

Eating meat is not unhealthy if done correctly. Anatomically, our bodies are not made for the eating of a lot of meat. We are made to eat mostly grains and vegetation-check out our teeth. Meat eaters in the animal world have teeth like cats.

The commercial meat available to most of us in the USA if pumped full of hormones, antibiotics, etc. If you do eat meat make it the healthiest meat you can find,

I for one do not think it is unhealthy unless you eat a lot of it. I was on a vegan diet for one week and felt no different then when I ate meat, just more gas. Now I am back to eating healthy all types of food including meat. BTW, for a fantastic low fat, great tasting beef like, try buffalo. It is lower in fat then turkey and really tastes great.

if eaten in excess yes it is bad for you. anything in moderation is okay.

Free-range non-GMO-fed unprocessed meat can be healthy in small quantities. It was a treat a 100 years ago.

It all depends on how much of it you eat

yeah

No, meat eating is not unhealthy. There's absolutely no proof that eating saturated fats increases your risk for heart disease and stroke.

The lie started with "research" by Ancel Keyes back in the 50s. He did a study called the "seven country study" which took data from seven countries and plotted a graph that showed perefectly that the more fat (meat) people ate, the more likely they were to die from heart related problems. Only problem there is he had data from 22 countries. He cherry picked the data he wanted and published a "scientific" report. it was picked up by the media. He was named TIME's man of the year! And today researchers make a lot of money promoting that idea. What do we substitute these days for natural animal saturated fats? Manufactured, processed oils from gains. Grains from huge international companies who spend big bucks supporting "research" which almost always paints their product as "healthy."

There have been around 30 government run studies trying to prove that saturated fats are dangerous to your health. None of them have been able to make the connection.

Don't be afraid of your food. Humans evolved eating the fattiest, highest cholesterol parts of the animals they killed or scavenged.

From the last link:

"These researchers point out that there are plenty of reasons to suggest that the low-fat-is-good-health hypothesis has now effectively failed the test of time. In particular, that we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic that started around the early 1980's, and that this was coincident with the rise of the low-fat dogma. (Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, also rose significantly through this period.) They say that low-fat weight-loss diets have proved in clinical trials and real life to be dismal failures, and that on top of it all, the percentage of fat in the American diet has been decreasing for two decades. Our cholesterol levels have been declining, and we have been smoking less, and yet the incidence of heart disease has not declined as would be expected. ''That is very disconcerting,'' Willett says. ''It suggests that something else bad is happening.''

I'll put some links if you have some time.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/218541…
http://nicenter.blogspot.com/2009/10/veg…
http://weight-loss.fitness.com/weight-lo…
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazi…

No matter how you cook it,
meat is full of fat and cholesterol,
and the nutrients can easily be obtained elsewhere.

They don't suggest it because health is not equal to weight loss,
nor is eating meat vs a vegetarian diet equal to weight loss.
It's about calories expended vs. calories consumed.

The fact, remains, however, that on average vegetarians and vegans have a lower BMI and enjoy a variety of health benefits from their choices.

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes. A vegetarian diet can meet current recommendations for all of these nutrients. An evidence-based review showed that vegetarian diets can be nutritionally adequate in pregnancy and result in positive maternal and infant health outcomes. The results of an evidence-based review showed that a vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease. Vegetarians also appear to have lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension and type 2 diabetes than nonvegetarians. Furthermore, vegetarians tend to have a lower body mass index and lower overall cancer rates. Features of a vegetarian diet that may reduce risk of chronic disease include lower intakes of saturated fat and cholesterol and higher intakes of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, soy products, fiber, and phytochemicals."

First of all, it's not a question about whether or not meat is unhealthy or not.

The question is: are humans 'designed' to eat meat?

That is the real question. Your own question-details gives a little look into this as you mention cooking. If we were designed to eat meat, then why are we processing it, then cooking it? Simple. We do not have the natural tools to kill, rip apart, and eat meat. No speed. No claws. No fangs. No cutting teeth. No digestive enzymes for meat. Long intestinal tract. If were were meat to eat meat, we'd be keeping live animals in cages for our dinner and eating them live. Yet, we do not, and for a good reason.

Eating meat actually does not contribute to weight gain. Try going on a high meat diet and you'll see that your weight will drop (just as with the Atkins diet). The reason for this is that we are not designed to consume meat, therefore we cannot extract the nutrients from meat very well at all. In fact, if a human was put on a 100% meat diet, they would wither away and die.

Wild meats generally are not laden with fat but are lean and muscular. It's the raised animals that are full of fat for the purpose of profits. Fat adds weight. Weight adds profit. It's not the fat that makes people gain weight in terms on excess fat, it's lethargy and a high calorie diet full of low nutrient foods that cause people to gain weight. The animal fats in food cause clogging, not excess fat. Humans are not designed to deal with animal fats, so what happens? It ends up going into our bloodstream and clogging things up. This doesn't happen with animals that are designed to deal with meat.

The more you look into it and study, you'll see there are far more intricate details to what I'm saying and it will become indisputable. People who argue for humans eating meat use cultural, emotional, and so forth arguments that just do not hold up to basic facts of anatomy and biology.