is meat good for you?

Question

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Answer 1

Animal protein is quite good for you, in moderation. It aids in brain function and muscle development. It also regulates mood and is good for your skin.

Answer 2

It can be, in small portions. It is an easy source of protein, fat, and other nutrients.

However, most first world countries consume far too much meat and use horrendous means of procuring it.

Meat can also be linked to numerous diseases from Diabetes to heart disease to colon cancer to strokes, and so on.

When a body can thrive on non-animal foods, meat becomes nothing more than a pleasure issue.

Answer 3

I've been eating less beef because I think I'm having trouble digesting it. I'm trying to eat more chicken and other foods instead. Red meat, I think, depends on the person. Some people can tolerate it, others can't, like me.

Answer 4

Meat has amino acids which are difficult to get otherwise. By planning and mixing and matching, vegetarians can obtain all of the essential amino acids needed by the human body everday. But, it takes some knowledge and a varied diet .

Answer 5

There are many benefits to a diet containing meat. Many vegetarians claim that meat is unhealthy. This is a blatant fallacy.
It is well established that eating meat improves the quality of nutrition, strengthens the immune system, promotes normal growth and development, is beneficial for day-to-day health, energy and well-being, and helps ensure optimal learning and academic performance.
A long term study found that children who eat more meat are less likely to have deficiencies than those who eat little or no meat. Kids who don’t eat meat — and especially if they restrict other foods, as many girls are doing — are more likely to feel tired, apathetic, unable to concentrate, are sick more often, more frequently depressed, and are the most likely to be malnourished and have stunted growth. Meat and other animal-source foods are the building blocks of healthy growth that have made America’s and Europe's youngsters the tallest, strongest and healthiest in the world.
Meat is an important source of quality nutrients, heme iron, protein, zinc and B-complex vitamins. It provides high-quality protein important for kids’ healthy growth and development.
The iron in meat (heme iron) is of high quality and well absorbed by the body, unlike nonheme iron from plants which is not well absorbed. More than 90 percent of iron consumed may be wasted when taken without some heme iron from animal sources. Substances found to inhibit nonheme iron absorption include phytates in cereals, nuts and legumes, and polyphenolics in vegetables. Symptoms of iron deficiency include fatigue, headache, irritability and decreased work performance. For young children, it can lead to impairment in general intelligence, language, motor performance and school readiness. Girls especially need iron after puberty due to blood losses, or if pregnant. Yet studies show 75 percent of teenage girls get less iron than recommended.
Meat, poultry and eggs are also good sources of absorbable zinc, a trace mineral vital for strengthening the immune system and normal growth. Deficiencies link to decreased attention, poorer problem solving and short-term memory, weakened immune system, and the inability to fight infection. While nuts and legumes contain zinc, plant fibre contains phytates that bind it into a nonabsorbable compound.
Found almost exclusively in animal products, Vitamin B12 is necessary for forming new cells. A deficiency can cause anaemia and permanent nerve damage and paralysis. The Vitamin B12 in plants isn't even bioavailable, meaning our body can't use it.
Why not buy food supplements to replace missing vitamins and minerals? Some people believe they can fill those gaps with pills, but they may be fooling themselves. Research consistently shows that real foods in a balanced diet are far superior to trying to make up deficiencies with supplements.

Lets not forget either that protein, while it is found in plants, is better quality in animal products.

@ Beebs

"no, it has blood, pus, parasites, urine, feces, growth hormones, antibiotics, steroids, purines and all other sorts of nasty stuff in it."

Blood, yes, but what's wrong with blood? I like my steaks bloody in the middle, and black pudding's not bad.
However, it doesn't contain any of the others. Pus isn't found any more in a cow's flesh than yours. I suppose it might have pus if you ate meat which had been infected before the slaughter, but you don't eat meat like that because it'd be rancid and inedible.
Parasites may be found, but rarely, and then on poorly preserved meat, and they're killed by even light cooking.
Why would it have urine on unless an inept butcher had burst the bladder all over it (chances of this happening virtually nil). And the same with feces. You don't find feces or urine in *your* muscles do you?
Growth hormones, steroids and antibiotics depend on where you live. Here, and in many countries there use is outlawed and meat cannot be sold if it contains them.

"Meat has to be cooked at certain temperatures to kill off bacteria and parasites-it makes no sense to still eat bacteria and parasites, just because they are dead. Meat is decaying animal flesh"

Rhubarb has to be cooked to destroy poisons in it. It makes no sense to eat poison just because it's been destroyed. (similar logical argument, and just as pathetic)

The air you breath and the water you drink has bacteria, as does any food you could possibly imagine. The fact is if you ate raw meat you'd probably be fine, and the worst you'd expect is an upset stomach. Even light cooking kills most bacteria, and your body kills the rest. Human's have a wonderful immune system, but we rarely use it; there are primitive people all over the world who eat raw meat without any side effects because they're used to it, and if pretty much anyone was to eat a raw steak today they'd be very unlucky to have any problems at all.
Parasites aren't a problem in properly preserved meat.

And meat isn't decaying. You either eat it fresh or after it's been preserved in the fridge, etc. You just don't eat rotten, rancid meat.

Answer 6

Beebs hit the nail on the head with her answer. "Meat is decaying animal flesh". Well the cow would sure be pissed off if I tried to eat it alive. lol.

Answer 7

Someone who eats a lot of red meat, will more than likely to get polyps when they get older .

Answer 8

God put animals on the earth to be eaten so I would say our bodies were designed for meat eating! (after the great flood of course).

Answer 9

no, it has blood, pus, parasites, urine, feces, growth hormones, antibiotics, steroids, purines and all other sorts of nasty stuff in it. You dont need meat to have a well balanced diet. Meat has to be cooked at certain temperatures to kill off bacteria and parasites-it makes no sense to still eat bacteria and parasites, just because they are dead. Meat is decaying animal flesh

Answer 10

NO!
It makes you fat!
And even if it were good for you, which it isn't, if you knew how 'meat' was treated before it was killed(slowly and painfully), could you eat it with a clean conscience? Anything that has to be abused and murdered before it is ready for human consumption can't be healthy.

Whatever, what you eat is your decision...