the annals of internal medicine looked at dozens of studies and found there’s little to no
effect from eating red meat
however, groups like the
American Heart Association
and the American Cancer so shun
are calling the study question
of all
joining me now is the chief of
cardiology doctor, some of
at ascension Saint Vincent’s
thank you so much for coming in
and talking about us people at
home, I’m sure like what is
going on one minute we’re
saying not to do it. One minute
we’re saying it’s OK. What
really is going on.
That he really does confuse the
situation quite a bit.
There’s there’s a lot of
problems at the study that I’m
a lot of different researchers
have pointed
>> over the past few weeks
since it’s come out, I’m one of
the main things is that
this will complicate the
situation we do know that there
are many many studies out there
that
clearly show a deleterious
effect our health from red meat
and processed meats what this
study does it actually looks at
health and dietary studies life
stuff studies as we look at
drug studies as we look at
device studies randomized
control trials are the gold
standard for her. All studies
in general. However we cannot
do that for dietary studies
this is never going to happen
we have 2 randomized patients
too either eating meat or not
eating meat for 20 years.
And basically they can’t hear
from those diet so that really
can’t be done.
But this a new study did is
look at dietary studies and
gave them relevance
based on them and hearing to
those strict guidelines.
So a lot of studies that we
take as kind of the Holy grails
of a dietary studies they
discounted so many
huge study is a study called
the lion heart study
that looked at thousands and
thousands of people over many
many years that clearly showed
an association of eating red
meat. Versus a Mediterranean
type diet. Showing a lot of bad
on cancer and diabetes and
heart disease. And there’s many
many studies at points in that
direction rain going off that
theme. Why is it red meat is
not good
for us. So red meat is very
very high in cholesterol, it’s
very high in saturated fat.
Processed meats have a lot of
salt. There these are all very.
Ochs a date of pro and planetary toy foods that can cause a lot of heart
disease again, a stroke.
Lead to diabetes weight gain.
Things like that.
And when we talk about 80% of
cardiac events are preventable.
This goes hand in hand right
there are act if you ever come
to my clinic, you know that
lifestyle is probably the main
thing of harp on to my patients
that you know all these
diseases are preventable.
All these diseases that we
haven’t in modern society can
be changed by having a
a sustainable plant based diet
with that said what is a heart
healthy diet. So the ideal diet
for patients of mine that have
heart disease is going to be a
plant based diet.
Now it depends on your your
overall goals for a diet so if
you’re a healthy young person,
then a preventative diet
is OK so Mediterranean type
diet high in fruits, vegetables
nuts grains,
cold water fish lean needs such
as lean chicken a lean white
meat says is reasonable for
those people. However, if you
have diabetes if you have heart
disease if you have high blood
pressure these are things that
it’s secondary prevention
actually The horse is out of
the barn. You have to try to
get back in CF that have
a more strict a diet you have
to basically cut out a lot of
these other meats and maybe
cold water fish may be OK still
but because of their high Omega
3 content but you really have
to focus on the plant based
diet you have to cut out the
saturated fats cut out the
processed foods and really
people a lot more strict to
that point. I know if my
fathers watching he’s going to
say I’m not giving up the red
meat.
>> For people like him do they
have to give it up altogether.
>> Well again it depends on
your and there are many people
that that
will not give up red meat and
for them, I say you know make
sure you have lean cuts of meat
cut off the fat if you’re
cooking the meat right up or
off. And the
excess grease and try to
minimize how much you do it, I
mean save it for special
occasions, I’m trying not to
make it a usual thing that
you’re going to have
every week and really quick
besides eating a heart healthy
diet what else can people do to
reduce their risk of
heart disease. Sure well, you
know exercise is being active
using up those calories that
you consume. 4 to 5 times a
week at least 30 to 45 minutes
of exercise is what we
recommend. And stress
reduction, you know there’s
many techniques that meditation
right we know that those things
as a
now they seem kind of this is
about a lot right of I mean
some anything that will take
your mind off of
all the problems you have in
life I think those are those
are key
things to to focus If you want
to have a heart healthy,
a lifestyle. Doctorow’s always