It's as bad as smoking
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
Boston, Massachusetts
October 23, 2015 6:36pm CST
I have noticed a new trend in how things considered dangerous to your health are now described by the medical community. If it is bad for you, it is compared to smoking.
A few months back, I read about a study that said "Sitting is the New Smoking". Maybe it's the only way they think they can get us out of our chairs. Sitting is going to kill us all, and yet we keep doing it. How to stop people from sitting? Tell them it's as bad as smoking. No one wants to be as unhealthy or as reviled by society in general as a smoker. They are bound to all get up and run around the block.
Today I read that eating meat is the new smoking. And not just red meat. Because now they've decided that not just red meat is red meat. White meat is also red meat. Pork chops are killers. Bacon? Might as well go back to sitting as eat bacon. Become a two pack a day smoker by sitting and eating bacon at the same time.
Of course, the warnings about lovely meats comes from WHO, the World Health Organization which is a branch of the UN. Now, I also read that article last year that stated that the UN wants us all to start eating more bugs and less meat. So, am I going to listen to them when they tell me that eating ham will kill me? Obviously just a ploy to get us to eat bugs. And stop sitting.
I think listening to the UN is as bad as smoking.
The WHO is expected to publish a report listing processed meat as a cancer-causing substance with the highest of five possible rankings
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28 responses
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
24 Oct 15
Mankind has been eating meat since he came down from the trees. Big juicy meals of protein-rich meat is what gave us the break from berry-hunting long enough to invent the wheel and the microwave and the iPhone. You can't do that if you have to scrounge for plants all day just to stay alive. MEAT. I love it.
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@TexanTornado (5573)
• United States
24 Oct 15
Sounds like quite a joke to me. Well, I am a smoker, so sitting and eating meat will just be a parallel thing to kill me. Perhaps I can be a case study for them??4 people like this
@TexanTornado (5573)
• United States
24 Oct 15
@Rollo1 Whoohoo gets all excited. I might have to contact them.
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
24 Oct 15
I think it is a matter of everything in moderation, except smoking.
I have sat in on four different procedures to put stents in various places on my sister and she has been told by about four or five cardiologists that even one a day can cause the arteries to become blocked again. I have not heard that about sitting or meat.
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@Pattitude (1287)
• Newton, North Carolina
24 Oct 15
Gerty, the World Health Organization will be releasing a statement on Monday.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
24 Oct 15
There is no doubt that barbecues produce PAHs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and that they are carcinogenic. But does that mean you can never eat meat cooked that way? I really think that they go overboard in these announcements.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48921)
• United States
24 Oct 15
It seems that about everything will kill us.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
24 Oct 15
@Shyamalaa
Very true you do need to die of something but it probably won't be from what they have said.
@Shyamalaa (525)
• Udaipur, India
24 Oct 15
You have to die of something in the end I guess!
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@mechanicaleye (4)
• Tuzla, Bosnia And Herzegovina
24 Oct 15
Meh, if that were the case, most of the population of my country would die before reaching fifty considering the fact that literally almost every dish must have meat in it. And I've met a lot of people over ninety, some of 'em smokers. Go figure.
One the side note, I'd rather eat meat from free-ranging animals whenever possible.
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@mechanicaleye (4)
• Tuzla, Bosnia And Herzegovina
24 Oct 15
@Rollo1 Exactly. In fact, there's a belief in a lot of countries that you can't be healthy or live a long life if you do not eat meat and fatty cheeses.
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@srisahara (4508)
• Indonesia
24 Oct 15
It was terrible, I thought. Sit, eat red meat, white meat, bacon, pork and all processed foods have been just as bad as smoking. Are we really in bad times so that what we do and we eat has become a potential killer. So how can we live a healthy life today?
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
24 Oct 15
Many of the warnings you mention (maybe all?) should be considered serious.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
24 Oct 15
Well, I want to warn them. I am not eating bugs. Mankind has been eating meat for millennia. The switch from herbivore to meat-eater was the single greatest catalyst in man's evolution and if it were going to kill us all, there wouldn't be any homosapiens on earth today.
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@Shyamalaa (525)
• Udaipur, India
24 Oct 15
It is hilarious! Is all of this on their website?
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@Pattitude (1287)
• Newton, North Carolina
24 Oct 15
No, chicken and fish are never considered red meat. Red meat is only beef, pork, veal. Any meat that is red when uncooked is considered red meat. Chicken and fish are never red when uncooked, it may have tinges of red, which is actually blood. And what we are calling meat is actually muscle.
The WHO will be putting this announcement out on Monday. But this is not news, I only hope this announcement will make people take heed and pay attention. But they won't.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
25 Oct 15
@Pattitude It has everything to do with the UN, WHO is an arm of the UN. And The UN doesn't want us to eat meat - any kind of meat. They want to convert Western countries to a diet of bugs. Because there's a meat shortage? No, because the UN doesn't want people raising livestock. It's all about the UN.
The UN report on bugs vs meat contains these nuggets:
" Crickets, for example, need 12 times less feed than cattle to produce the same amount of protein, according to the report.
Most insects are are likely to produce fewer environmentally harmful greenhouse gases than other livestock.
The ammonia emissions associated with insect-rearing are far lower than those linked to conventional livestock such as pigs, says the report."
For a better experience on your device, try our mobile site. Accessibility links BBC iD BBC iD BBC navigation Search term: World 13 May 2013 Last updated at 14:00 Share this page Over 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diet with insects
@Pattitude (1287)
• Newton, North Carolina
25 Oct 15
@Rollo1 Yes I heard about that report, but what I am saying the WHO report to be released tomorrow has nothing to do with the UN. It will never happen, especially in the US
@Pattitude (1287)
• Newton, North Carolina
25 Oct 15
@Rollo1 It also depends on genetics, but why put excessive poisons in your system. I love ham and bacon and do eat it in moderation. This has nothing to do with the UN, but to maintain health.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
24 Oct 15
all of these make me giggle, I wonder what next, air?
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
24 Oct 15
I never eat meat anyway, so that shouldn't be what does for me in the end! And I don't smoke either!
I have always hated the taste and texture of meat of all kinds, and have always found it strange that most people seem to gain pleasure from so doing. When I left my parents' home and set off on my own in life, not having to eat meat was one of the greatest things I looked forward to, and I have enjoyed that freedom ever since!
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@TheHorse (205646)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 Oct 15
Sitting does make my lower back hurt. Right now, I'm working on a speaker project. Maybe I'll post about it. Bugs? "Slimy, yet satisfying!" do you know what movie that's from? I'll stick to meat. It would take too many bugs to fill up this hungry guy.
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@Rohvannyn (3098)
• United States
24 Oct 15
I hear you! It's really interesting to watch how this happens. I am not as easily manipulated as they think and it sounds like, neither are you!
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@kenneth12345 (1)
• Chicago, Illinois
24 Oct 15
yea it is bad to eat mean because it has all the fat and cholesterol in it. but smoking is even worse because it kills you faster and you can't breath as well as you supposed to. so don't smoke or eat as much meat.
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