Your study is on rats and funded by the dairy industry. That ought to give you some idea of how desperate Big Ag is to exonerate the poisonous saturated fat.
Scroll down to references and citations, and educate yourself about the trans fats that are present in meat and dairy.
You may wish to re-examine your previous claim that vaccinic acid and conjugated linoleic acids may contribute to negative health effects when eaten with meat.
It is also worth mentioning that some of those trans fatty acids are produced by bacteria found inside the human intestinal tract [0]. You're getting those anyway, whether you eat meat or not.
Can you identify one or more of the saturated fats found in meat that produce adverse health effects? Better yet, can you identify the reactions in the biochemical pathway that produce those effects?
I am reluctant to accept your apparent claim that "saturated fat is bad for you", when I am well aware that medium chain saturated fats are sent directly to the liver, whereas long chain saturated fats are assembled into triglycerides if not already in that form, packaged up with cholesterol and protein, and transported through the lymphatic system before reaching the bloodstream.
As the original article stated, correlation based on survey responses is a weak, weak, weak way to do research.
It may be true that eating meat is relatively unhealthy. But it also may be the case that the unhealthful effects are produced by the Maillard reaction products from the cooking process, and that changing the preparation method removes the additional health risks [1]. You won't know until doing enough real, rigorously scientific studies to more precisely identify the mechanisms in play.
I don't have a good enough understanding about human physiology to give a satisfactory answer on exactly by what mechanism saturated fat messes you up by. But if you're looking for more evidence for my claim that it is unhealthy, have a look at the following videos. Each has citation links to direct papers you can read to understand this subject further.
Scroll down to references and citations, and educate yourself about the trans fats that are present in meat and dairy.
You may wish to re-examine your previous claim that vaccinic acid and conjugated linoleic acids may contribute to negative health effects when eaten with meat.
It is also worth mentioning that some of those trans fatty acids are produced by bacteria found inside the human intestinal tract [0]. You're getting those anyway, whether you eat meat or not.
Can you identify one or more of the saturated fats found in meat that produce adverse health effects? Better yet, can you identify the reactions in the biochemical pathway that produce those effects?
I am reluctant to accept your apparent claim that "saturated fat is bad for you", when I am well aware that medium chain saturated fats are sent directly to the liver, whereas long chain saturated fats are assembled into triglycerides if not already in that form, packaged up with cholesterol and protein, and transported through the lymphatic system before reaching the bloodstream.
As the original article stated, correlation based on survey responses is a weak, weak, weak way to do research.
It may be true that eating meat is relatively unhealthy. But it also may be the case that the unhealthful effects are produced by the Maillard reaction products from the cooking process, and that changing the preparation method removes the additional health risks [1]. You won't know until doing enough real, rigorously scientific studies to more precisely identify the mechanisms in play.
[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19118369
[1] Some raw meat advocates already believe this.