Omnivore order...

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Well what a surprise...not. "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research"...[LINK] both parts of that title deserve looking at, the shoddy research becoming more and more of a problem in every field of science. 

 "KEY TAKEAWAYS" 

• Studies have been linking red meat consumption to health problems like heart disease, stroke, and cancer for years, but these invariably suffer from methodological limitations. 
• In an unprecedented effort, health scientists at the University of Washington scrutinized decades of research on red meat consumption and its links to various health outcomes, introducing a new way to assess health risks in the process. 
• They only found weak evidence that unprocessed red meat consumption is linked to colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, and ischemic heart disease, and no link at all between eating red meat and stroke."

More HERE with both sides of the argument ("Red meat causes heart disease. Except when it doesn’t?" link pre-pandemic) from the same Big Think.

More here, very good 'both-sided' article and comments: No Chris (Carmichael, Founder & Head Coach of CTS) we won't: Will We Ever Stop Arguing About Red Meat? [LINK]

Ows opines: eat what you fucking like, just don't overdo it, and do some exercise (walk). 

Ows outlook...

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The year 2017 will be memorable, as memorable as the 2016 but mainly for different reasons; as for the exact timing, well only the red fire rooster is a cert:

Ows outlook...

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The year 2017 will be memorable, as memorable as the 2016 but mainly for different reasons; as for the exact timing, well only the red fire rooster is a cert:

Odd orations III...

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Something is afoot? And I don't mean that funny shaped thing on the end of your leg (hat-tip Carry On) - bad things come in threes and Red Ken is the third this week: Ken Livingstone has criticised Labour's (and Crash Gordon's) 'moral cowardice' for "borrowing through the boom rather than take difficult decisions with the public finances". This follows hard on the heels of Jack Straw admitting what we all know (that Labour made a spectacular mistake over immigration) and David Blunkett's 'Romaphobia'...imagine had anyone from the Conservatives said that! They'd be BBC headlines for weeks! What is going on? ([edit] I doubt it's Falkirk, which isn't going away). Is Red Ed so bad that the old guard need to draw attention away from him and his crazy schemes that get ripped to shreds as soon as they are uttered (or at least after a few days of BBC blanket promotion of his 'policy' ideas)? Or are they clearing the field preparing for a pre-election 'we have recognised all our mistakes' speech?...



Update: and Alan makes four (hat-tip Teddy Bear)

Odd orations III...

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Something is afoot? And I don't mean that funny shaped thing on the end of your leg (hat-tip Carry On) - bad things come in threes and Red Ken is the third this week: Ken Livingstone has criticised Labour's (and Crash Gordon's) 'moral cowardice' for "borrowing through the boom rather than take difficult decisions with the public finances". This follows hard on the heels of Jack Straw admitting what we all know (that Labour made a spectacular mistake over immigration) and David Blunkett's 'Romaphobia'...imagine had anyone from the Conservatives said that! They'd be BBC headlines for weeks! What is going on? ([edit] I doubt it's Falkirk, which isn't going away). Is Red Ed so bad that the old guard need to draw attention away from him and his crazy schemes that get ripped to shreds as soon as they are uttered (or at least after a few days of BBC blanket promotion of his 'policy' ideas)? Or are they clearing the field preparing for a pre-election 'we have recognised all our mistakes' speech?...

Update: and Alan makes four (hat-tip Teddy Bear)