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ANH-Intl eAlert No 273 | 29 October 2015 |
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e-ALERT |
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Meat, isoflavones and kids’ deadly diets |
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It’s all over the news: processed meats are classified by the WHO as “human carcinogens” and red meats “probable human carcinogens”. Do these categorisations apply to all processed meats and all red meats? Of course not! You can find out more in our piece in this week’s news snippets.
These kinds of problem arise because of the way in which we categorise, especially in the absence of complete information. Researchers categorise foods so that they can better understand eating patterns and health outcomes for particular groups. Governments categorise supposedly to offer advice to the public. But, whether it’s about sugars, carbs, isoflavones or meats, all especially topical as of now, we need to be aware of both the risks and the benefits of particular foods within each group.
We must also understand how the agricultural production of our foods, their processing or other forms of preparation (including cooking) might alter them. In fact, before we condemn a food or food group, even if it’s a particular level of intake, we must know a huge amount about it, and recognise if this applies to all its representatives. We (or should I say governments) must also declare when they don’t know enough, and then—especially then—they shouldn’t be dictatorial.
Most foods even within one group are not the same, just like each vitamin has a particular function yet lives under the same ‘vitamin’ umbrella. Frankly, despite what governments and other health authorities might allude, there is so much more that we don’t know than we do. We’re just at the beginning of our understanding of the delicate interplay between our genes, our microbial genes, our food, other aspects of our environment and the multitude of other factors that make us who we are as individuals.
Not even the WHO got it right on meats, in our view. Germany’s main food safety assessors (BfR) didn’t get it right on isoflavones. And food guidelines offered by governments are going to do nothing to fix the time bomb that is presently being primed as a result of the eating habits of today's kids. Yet the health and self-care capacity of millions of us, including future generations, are at the disposal of these faceless assessors and arbitrators. That’s why we work so hard to keep you up to speed on what’s really going on so you can make more informed choices.
We hope you’ll engage fully in this week’s stories, and share them widely. You won’t read about this stuff anywhere else.
In health, naturally
Rob Verkerk, PhD
Founder, executive & scientific director |
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