Originally Posted by
RH Clark
Red meat IMHO is healthy as long as you are working enough to build muscle. there is a hormone, I think, called mTOR that helps build muscle but can help grow cancers if a person is more sedentary. I prefer to only consume red meat when I have worked hard enough to make muscles sore.
Strictly anecdotal: my sister doesn't do a lot of exercise, aside from being a homeschooling mom of 3 young boys. She was having some health problems, I'm not sure exactly what, and got a recommendation to eat I think it was 180 grams of protein per day. I'm pretty sure that's coming largely from red meat, and she's never been healthier.
I've read that the studies looking at the health of red meat tend to not control for type of red meat: a burger with fries and a Coke counts as the same serving of red meat as a grass-fed steak.