{"id":22076,"date":"2026-04-11T20:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22076"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:51:58","slug":"americans-are-eating-up-the-meat-industrys-health-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22076","title":{"rendered":"Americans are eating up the meat industry&#8217;s health claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Meat is indeed packed with protein, but it comes with some well-established health drawbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSaturated fat we\u2019ve known about for decades,\u201d said Dr. Sarah C. Hull, a cardiologist at Yale Medicine. It\u2019s common in red meat and contributes to increasing LDL cholesterol levels, hardening the blood vessels and, in turn, raising the risk of heart attack or stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, \u201call mammalian meat tends to be very inflammatory,\u201d said Hull, who studies the diet-related risks of heart disease and cancer. \u201cMore recently we\u2019ve come to understand that the many pro-inflammatory compounds found in red meat\u201d can have other downsides, she said, including \u201cdeleterious interactions with the gut microbiome.\u201d Studies have also linked the risks of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/risk-prevention\/diet-physical-activity\/how-diet-and-physical-activity-impact-cancer-risk\/red-meat-and-cancer.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certain cancers<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hsph.harvard.edu\/news\/significant-link-found-between-heme-iron-found-in-red-meat-and-other-animal-products-and-type-2-diabetes-risk\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Type 2 diabetes<\/a>&nbsp;to heme iron, a form of the mineral that\u2019s found only in animal tissue and is more easily absorbed than the iron in plants.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.yahoo.com\/wellness\/nutrition\/healthy-eating\/articles\/americans-eating-meat-industrys-health-093040469.html\">https:\/\/health.yahoo.com\/wellness\/nutrition\/healthy-eating\/articles\/americans-eating-meat-industrys-health-093040469.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Meat is indeed packed with protein, but it comes with some well-established health drawbacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturated fat we\u2019ve known about for decades,\u201d said Dr. Sarah C. Hull, a cardiologist at Yale Medicine. It\u2019s common in red meat and contributes to increasing LDL cholesterol levels, hardening the blood vessels and, in turn, raising the risk of heart attack or stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, \u201call mammalian meat tends to be very inflammatory,\u201d said Hull, who studies the diet-related risks of heart disease and cancer. \u201cMore recently we\u2019ve come to understand that the many pro-inflammatory compounds found in red meat\u201d can have other downsides, she said, including \u201cdeleterious interactions with the gut microbiome.\u201d Studies have also linked the risks of certain cancers and Type 2 diabetes to heme iron, a form of the mineral that\u2019s found only in animal tissue and is more easily absorbed than the iron in plants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/health.yahoo.com\/wellness\/nutrition\/healthy-eating\/articles\/americans-eating-meat-industrys-health-093040469.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1503,81,514,515,811,48],"class_list":["post-22076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-evidence","tag-health","tag-meat","tag-red-meat","tag-science","tag-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22077,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22076\/revisions\/22077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}