I found a grocery selling Uruguay beef clod steaks really cheap, comes out to like a buck or a buck and a half US each, I started eating one each day for breakfast. I usually can’t even finish it, and I don’t feel hungry again until the late afternoon if even then.
So cheap, filling, and tastes good. But tell someone you eat a steak every day for breakfast and they are instantly disgusted and issue dire warnings about how bad for you all that meat is and how you’re going to have a heart attack etc etc. Pretty much any random person repeats the same crap, but they can never back up the source it is just everyone knows that. If anything I’d like to put on weight so that isn’t an issue, they are lean anyway.
I mostly eat more animal protein than most people anyway because subsisting on more carbs or beans causes me endless abdominal pains and gas lack of energy etc. I find I feel a lot better on a lower carb diet.
I think it’s just the old ‘red meat is bad for you’ thing.
The jury is still out on this - for every study that says red meat is bad, you’ll find one that says it isn’t - but the common perception is that red meat causes heart disease, cancer and all sorts. From a little bit of studying, it seems that most of the dangers (if any) come from processing rather than the meat itself - here’s a decent study I just stumbled across.
Personally, I wouldn’t have a problem with someone eating a steak every day - except maybe jealousy.
Do some studying of your own and make your own informed decision as to whether what you’re eating is bad for you or not. If you’re happy that you’re not at risk from it (or you’re happy to take the risk), then go for it. Enjoy your steak. If anyone criticizes you for it, tell 'em where to go.
I’m not an expert (I’m not even sure there are any real experts on food) but it seems as if humans are VERY differently set up when it comes to nutrition. What is great for one person can make another sick.
Regarding the meat I think the real arguments are probably ethical and political rather than health based. Ethically the way the meat industry works is just… beyond awful. I suspect when we look back at it in a generation or two we will put it up there with the Holocaust. It’s just an atrocity. By eating cheap meat you are funding an industry that produces suffering on an incredible scale. It’s not human suffering but I suspect that as our consciousness continues to evolve that will make less and less of a difference.
The other argument would be that meat production and consumption is very Bad for The Environment ™. It’s a very energy inefficient way to provide nutrition to humans (you can basically feed 9 vegetarians on the same amount of energy as 1 meat eater), destroyed a lot of land and causes a lot of emissions of greenhouse gases.
Health wise I actually think you’re better off eating steak for breakfast than most people in the US. The main diet there seems more like a slow suicide-by-fat-and-sugar than an actual diet.
I’m too lazy to look anything up, but I’m pretty sure high consumption of red meat is significantly correlated with increased heart disease and colon cancer. There are places where people eat steak pretty much every day, so it’s fairly easy to see how they compare to others. Of course correlation is not causation.
I don’t know. The info isn’t that reliable for nutrition which in many ways is still in its infancy.
For one thing, people are different genetically and have totally different microbiomes in their digestive systems. What is bad for one person may be harmless for another and positive for another.
Plus a lot of the old ‘sage’ advice we were given turned out to be crap. All fat is bad, saturated fat is bad, dietary cholesterol is bad, salt is bad. Most of it turned out to be unreliable or questionable. Now people are saying carbs are bad but that doesn’t explain why nations like China or Japan which eat carb heavy diets have low obesity rates.
Plus as far as red meat some people believe grass fed is better than corn fed, I have no idea if it is true or not.
Anyway, everyone dies whether they follow questionable medical trends or not. So have fun with your steaks while I eat pop tarts for breakfast.
