They are coming for your sausages.
Regular meat-eaters are more likely to suffer from chronic health conditions than those who shun or ration animal products, a study has found.
The research from the University of Oxford found a meat-lover who eats 70 grams of meat — processed or unprocessed — more than a peer is at 15 per cent higher risk of heart disease, 30 per cent more likely to get diabetes and almost a third (31 per cent) more likely to develop pneumonia in the future.
You know what? I’ll take the risk. I’d rather live a shorter life and enjoy it than live forever on a diet of cardboard. Life is all about risk. I take a risk every time I straddle a motorcycle. I take a risk every time I step outside my front door. I take a risk with every breath I take.
So, I’ll have my sausages, bacon, red meats and whatever else I damned well please.
This suggests some of the correlation between meat and health problems is caused by overweight or obese people — who are at increased risk of health conditions due to their weight — that eat a standard amount of meat.
Repeat after me, correlation is not causation.
As a result, it is hard to say how much eating lots of meat directly causes health concerns or if it is a case of people who eat meat are more likely to be fat and therefore more at risk of these same health concerns.
The whole thing is bollocks, then.
A relative risk of 1.3! Basically bugger all then. What’s betting the confidence levels had to be set very low to even get those paltry numbers.
I like emulsified high fat offal tubes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzeDZtx3wUw
Latter-day puritans: if you enjoy it or it makes you happy, it must be banned or at least severely discouraged.
Bollocks (vegan, of course) to ’em all.
My Tesco delivery will be bringing my sausages later today. I opted for Cumberland this time.
Is there any other kind? Cumberland certainly punches above its weight by gifting us the king of sausages.
Hell’s bells, what I wouldn’t do for a Cumberland ring here in Callao.
It’s illegal, it’s immoral or it makes you fat.
You have to be old enough, but an appropriate song.
One of my late Mother’s favourite little ditties.
https://youtu.be/Za6J7lBk3I4
“a standard amount of meat” reminds me of this quote –
‘It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week.’ George Orwell, 1984.
As time goes on, I realise we are living through Orwell’s dystopian prediction.
He couldn’t have predicted half of what we are currently experiencing. No one could!
Don’t forget, the Monster Raving Loony Party campaigned for the abolition of dog-licenses, gay marriage and all-day pub opening. Who’s the loonies now?
Someone suggested a tee shirt slogan: “Make 1984 fiction again.”
A good slogan with a nod to the bad orange man.
The correlation they never mention is that people classed as overweight in the new NHS approved BMI charts are:
a) Likely to live longer than those classed as normal weight – (big clue here)
b) More likely to survive an encounter with OURNHS or surgery
( Its almost as if animals with sufficient fat reserves to carry them through bad times will live to see another season)
Quite so, accepting that there are a host of factors affecting a person’s health, in terms of BMI, the morbidity / mortality U curve bottoms out close to a BMI of 28. The risk for “normals” and mildly obese is about the same. It is only the morbidly obese and anorexics who are at significantly greater risk.
The war on meat continues, softening us up for a diet of plants and edible insect dishes.
There is a bakery in Wales which produces biscuits using ground crickets – featured on Beeb’s The Food Programme a few years ago; around the same time the Beeb had another radio programme featuring savoury dishes where the meat substitute was insects.
Beetle Biriyani, anyone? And if you fancy a tasty snack:
https://www.eatgrub.co.uk/shop/
They have no meat? Let them eat dausages!
You know what? I’ll take the risk too. I’d rather enjoy life
Bacon – yummy
Morrisons “The Best” sausages are very good and imo better than Hecks
OT April Fool a month early this year?
‘Double masking’: Government PHE scientists to consider updating advice
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/01/growing-trend-us-double-masking-prompts-government-scientists/
Why no 3, 4 or 5? Who cares if you can’t breathe, you’re safe from Covid
Wrap head in cling-film and you’ll not catch or spread
Death is the final cure.
I think that the inability to get on with your own life and leave other people alone to get on with theirs is a serious personality flaw. There always seems to be someone telling you what you should eat, what you should drive, how much exercise you need to be doing, how you should heat your house and on and on. I’d like to be able to stick them all on an island somewhere and make them live by their own rules.
The Golgafrincham option is always the best option in these circumstances,
These days I’d quite like to stick myself on an island.
Give up anything and everything pleasurable and you’ll live to a grand old age. Then you’ll be on your death bed dying of nothing.
“…Give up anything and everything pleasurable and you’ll live to a grand old age…”
Actually, you probably won’t, but it will seem like it.
It was quite depressing to see this “research” printed yesterday in so many of the UK/s media. In each case it was just written up as fact – no attempt to seek a counter point or challenge what is at best dubious claims was made.
Such is the state of British journalism at the moment. So much is just lazy copy/pasting
The copy and paste journalism always reminds me of the scene out of the Life of Brian where there is a guy outside the stoning venue selling stones that he has just picked up off the ground.
I knew someone who sent good money to a ‘fortune teller’ for one of her lucky stones.
He couldn’t be convinced that she’d just gone down to the local beach.
Lincolnshire sausages are very nice. Those are the ones we choose to eat, with bacon and eggs of course. Tough we used to call them erren when I was a boy.
You buy sausages from Tesco???
As my late father always advised, “If you don’t drink, don’t smoke and don’t go with mucky women, you won’t live any longer, it’ll just feel like it”.