meat-eaters, did you know?

Question

Americans consume too much protein? Protein has replaced fats and carbohydrates but the calorie levels are the same. That's why obesity is a problem. Cut down on the protein and we will be healthier.

Answer 1

Actually we eat far too much carbs. Early man did not have all the grains that we eat now. That's why the low carb diets work so well.

Actually all-in-all we generally eat too much of everything.

Answer 2

yea that sounds about right
a person should eat, 1 serving of meat a day
not 3 serving per meal
a whopping 9 serving per day

simple math will show you that 9 is more then the number of 1
in fat, if you take 9 and minus the 1, you get 8
8 is times more then the amount of protein a person should get

of course you can get protein without eating meat
meat got too much fat in it, even lean meat is not healthy
cool huh? i'm good at math

Answer 3

protein is not only in meat. you can find it in many other vegetarian products too such as peanut butter. american consume too much of everything, not just meat as you are implying.
and to collins 17, do you know "most" meat eaters? this is a generalized statement that you cant make. vegans can be unhealthy too in the same way meat eaters are if they dont know how to balance their diets.

Answer 4

Excess protein may be to blame for osteoporosis and kidney disease, but not obesity. It's excess calories and not enough exercise that causes obesity. It's larger portions that are partially to blame for the obesity epidemic.

BTW, city dwellers tend to be thinner than suburb dwellers because the way cities are laid out, it's easier to walk from place to place. I don't even own a car, so I rely on public transit.

Answer 5

Before refined foods, starches and sugar were introduced to the Eskimos they lived on a diet that was almost all meat. They did not suffer from obesity, diabetes, strokes or tooth decay. After they started getting food from the south they started to get all of these problems. Humans were not designed to consume the amount of sugars and starches that we do. Even grain, regarded as the staff of life requires huge amounts of processing to be made edible. It would not have been an available food source for early humans, at least not until they learned to grind it. Sugar is also relatively scarce in the wild. It is in some fruits, in small amounts, or as sap, nectar and honey. Those are all scarce sources though.
A natural human diet would have been fruits, nuts, berries, meat and a few easily reached roots. Most vegetables are the result of cultivation. If you look at wild carrots and modern carrots you will get the idea.

I will say that we are overloaded with high calory foods, most of which our bodies were not intended to deal with in the volumes we consume them in.

Cutting out fats is a dangerous practice because many of the proteins (vegetable or animal) as well as many of the vitamins need fat available for us to digest them.

The body deals with starches and sugars by immediately starting to convert them into glycogen and then into fats in the body.
We do not actually absorb starches, they need to be broken into simple sugars in our guts before our bodies can take them in.
Loading our bodies with starches and sugars leads to obesity. It also seems to contibute to diabetes.

The other truly huge factor in obesity is the fact that we do not actually work for our food anymore. We drive instead of walk, type instead of gather, and think instead of chase.

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Collins 17; I happen to have met plenty of obese vegetarians and I have noticed that many of them have serious skin problems.

Answer 6

Too much of anything is not good. A healthy serving of meat is normally 3 to 4 oz. How many 4 oz T-Bones, Porterhouses or Prime Ribs have you seen at your restaurant or in your store's meat case?

Human bodies were designed to be omnivores, meaning they need a combination of meats, vegetables, dairy, grains/breads, and in a small amount, fats. Also, each source of food contains different combinations of vitamins and amino acids. Could you do this without meat? Yes, but one would have to be extremely careful to know how to get the proper nutrition when completely removing an entire food group from one's diet. Since I am not a food scientist, I will stick with small portions of a combination of all foods in the food pyramid.

Whether you get too much protein from too much meat or too much beans boils down to the same thing: Too much.

Answer 7

Umm...

Obesity is a number of factors, including lack of exercise, unhealthy eating like too much saturated fats, trans fats, ect. Not enough water, vegetables and fruits.

How about exercise and eat a healthy balanced diet and we will be healthier.

Answer 8

America along with any other place in the world who has fast food restaurants such as McDonalds all have obesity problems,I dont necessarily know if we are the 'fatest' country but I could check and get back to you on that. :-)

Answer 9

americans, on average, consume too much everything, that's why we have obesity, its not just protein.

Answer 10

We do eat too much meat. We only need about 2oz of red meat a couple of times a week. "White" meats . . . fish, poultry, seafood are much more healthy for you.

Answer 11

Funny how meat eaters are the most unhealthy and yet they try to give me advice.
I hate when big people criticize my diet
Yossarious why don't you go away this is the vegan/vegetarian section