<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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</div>### I am mildly skeptical of the red meat kills claims.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm more than mildly skeptical. This is an observational study based on self-reported eating habits. The mortality in the sample populations was very low, and a 20% increase is insignificant. For more detailed debunking see:</div>

<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.gnolls.org/2893/always-be-skeptical-of-nutrition-headlines-or-what-red-meat-consumption-and-mortality-pan-et-al-really-tells-us/">http://www.gnolls.org/2893/always-be-skeptical-of-nutrition-headlines-or-what-red-meat-consumption-and-mortality-pan-et-al-really-tells-us/</a><br>

</div><div><a href="http://www.marksdailyapple.com/will-eating-red-meat-kill-you/">http://www.marksdailyapple.com/will-eating-red-meat-kill-you/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://garytaubes.com/2012/03/science-pseudoscience-nutritional-epidemiology-and-meat">http://garytaubes.com/2012/03/science-pseudoscience-nutritional-epidemiology-and-meat</a><br>

</div><div><a href="http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2012/03/red-meat-mortality-the-usual-bad-science/">http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2012/03/red-meat-mortality-the-usual-bad-science/</a><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

So if you like meat and if you are worried about it killing you, just<br>
donate blood on a quarterly basis which is sufficient to keep your<br>
ferritin levels below 50 and should completely protect you from meat's<br>
poisonous impact.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm there.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave </div></div>