[arboghast]

It isn’t, in fact it’s more nutrient dense per calories than vegetables and legumes and rich in amino-acids necessary to maintain muscle mass which is increasingly important as you age.

It’s just something the anti-meat crowd parade, while omitting that:

- These beliefs come from epidemiological studies without regards for other life habits such as smoking or dietary choices such as sugar intake.

- Often when saying meat is bad, what is actually referred to is processed meat packed with salt and nitrites.

Eating chicken, pork or beef that you buy raw and cook yourself is healthy.

How much you eat of anything matters too. Don’t eat anything in excess and move.

[hombre_fatal]

> more nutrient dense per calories than vegetables

I'm not sure how this meme started, but it's not actually true. You can plug foods into Cronometer.com and see for yourself. e.g. carrots (vitamin A) or kale (vitamin K1) give you the RDA with few calories. I mean, the cocoa powder I added to my smoothie this morning had 100% RDA copper and 45% RDA iron in 57 calories.

Similarly, plants and plant-based foods have full amino profiles. Once again, plug anything from soy beans or even broccoli into Cronometer.com and look at the amino acid breakdown.

These are some really ancient wives tales about vegetables.

> These beliefs come from epidemiological studies without regards for other life habits such as smoking or dietary choices such as sugar intake.

This isn't true. Tracking and multivariate adjustment are standard fare for epi studies.

[arboghast]

It's not a meme. If you look at research that look at foods rich in micronutrients, you'll see that meat covers most of them.

For example, yes Kale is rich in calcium and vitamin K than meat in general, but beef, pork or chicken covers a higher ratio of micronutrients than Kale. Obviously, one should not only eat meat. But the point was that meat itself does not make you sick (unless in excess, like anything).

> Similarly, plants and plant-based foods have full amino profiles. Once again, plug anything from soy beans or even broccoli into Cronometer.com and look at the amino acid breakdown.

Full amino acid profile doesn't mean that it contains the same amount, it just means that it's present. Moreover, nutrient absorption is often lower with vegetables than with meat.

Again, not saying one should not eat vegetables. One definitely should eat fruits and vegetables. But it's clear that lacking meat in one diet has long term consequences that reveals itself later in life.