[Article] Eating fatty meats make you obese, scientist claims

MicraBoy

Aideen Sheehan, Irish Independent wrote:

PEOPLE are becoming obese because they eat obese animals, with even chicken containing three times as much fat and many more calories than it did a few decades ago.

A world-renowned scientist told a conference in Co Meath yesterday that modern farming was a "pathological process of fat production" that had sent calorie content soaring, while the amount of essential nutrients in our food plummeted.

Effectively, we are stuffing farm animals with high-energy food and stopping them exercising - all the things doctors say we should not do to ourselves, said Professor Michael Crawford, director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry & Human Nutrition at London Metropolitan University.

A chicken thigh eaten in 2004 contained 106 more calories than an identical thigh eaten in 1969, and it had 17.5g of fat per 100g compared with 5.7g in the earlier era, he told the Bord Bia Poultry & Egg Conference in Enfield.

Beef had also suffered with modern cattle containing 30pc fat compared to just 5pc in wild herds, he said. Animals were now grown to full size in less than half the time they used to be, and this accelerated growth had grave consequences for human health.

"If you eat obesity you will become obese," he said, adding the problem was not with eating meat per se, but in what we had done to it.

Intensive farming led to a serious decline in the amount of essential fatty acids such as the Omega 3 acid DHA in meat, because animals were fed on unbalanced high-grain diets, said Prof Crawford.

Eating organic meat did not help either, he said. His studies had shown its nutrient profile was often as bad as conventional meat.

The reduction in essential fatty acids in our diet had drastic implications for human mental health as brain disorders were soaring, particularly in young people who would have been exposed to the changed diet in the womb.

Prof Crawford said he had been warning about the risk of too much saturated fat since the '60s - and this was accepted as a leading cause of heart disease - but that brain disorders were surpassing this problem.

He said food policy had gone wrong by focusing so strongly on increasing protein intake to build bigger bodies while ignoring the need to feed the brain.

The cost of treating mental health and brain disorders was now overtaking all other health problems in the EU, he said.

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daveirl

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BrianD3

If you eat obesity you will become obese

That sentence makes my head hurt :rolleyes: Even if he said "if you eat obese animals you will become obese" it would still be misleading crap.

The Irish Indo is a rag anyway, it's nearly as bad as the Herald now.

daveirl

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ruprect

That "scientist" should get a nobel prize, who would have ever guessed that eating high calorie foods would make you put on excess fat :rolleyes:

A chicken thigh eaten in 2004 contained 106 more calories than an identical thigh eaten in 1969, and it had 17.5g of fat per 100g compared with 5.7g in the earlier era

ehh... doesnt that mean they are not identical? I bet I could have found a fatty chicken in 69 and lean one now....

It is very easy to simply choose not to eat the fat on meat and skin on chicken

t-ha

ruprect wrote:

That "scientist" should get a nobel prize, who would have ever guessed that eating high calorie foods would make you put on excess fat :rolleyes:


ehh... doesnt that mean they are not identical? I bet I could have found a fatty chicken in 69 and lean one now....

It is very easy to simply choose not to eat the fat on meat and skin on chicken

Quiet ruprect, you're making too much sense & ruining the poor scientist's argument.

Also, saturated fat intake is now being downgraded as the major cause of heart disease & processed grains are starting to take the heat, so the info is out-dated on top of everything else.


Eating WAY too much crap makes you obese, t-ha claims