Not a secret if you eat meat have a variety of health benefits for the body. Even some medical studies claim if beef has the same nutritional content of white meat or fish.
In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition stated that the fat-free meat contributes important in a heart-healthy diet as well as the benefits that can be obtained from the white meat.
However, you need to be careful when buying meat for consumption, particularly processed meat.
The results mentioned, excessive consumption of processed meat can shorten life.
Studies involving approximately half a million men and women aged 35 to 70 years in 10 countries on the European continent lasted for 1 year.
The participants were asked to fill out questionnaires about diet consumed over a span of 1 year. Provide researchers with a specific classification questions concerning the consumption of meat. Whether it's red meat, white, and processed.
The meats include beef, goat, sheep, horses to pigs. While white meat including chicken, turkey, rabbit, until duck.
Researchers believe that the high consumption of processed meat is said if it exceeds 160 grams per day. The survey found more than 5000 participants died from heart disease and artery disorders, more than 9000 of cancer, and more than 1000 people have respiratory problems.
One of the researchers from the University of Zurich stated, "Overall, we estimate that 3 percent of premature deaths each year could be prevented if people ate less than 20 grams per day of processed meat."
Conclusion Research
From these results the researchers concluded that the excessive consumption of processed meat can increase the risk of death from heart disease by 72 percent and from cancer by 11 percent.
How to Distinguish Processed Meat & Non-processed
Distinguishing non-processed meat and processed is 'tricky'. But not the means can not be distinguished at all. Non-processed meat can be regarded as fresh meat, which means it does not matter or other substances mixed because its main ingredient is the meat itself.
Well, because the non-processed meats do not use a food preservative, the shorter the shelf-life of processed meats.
While the meat is processed and preserved meat has other ingredients mixed uses, including food preservatives, so the relatively longer shelf-life. Processed meats have also been through a variety of other processes, such as salting, curing, and the addition of some chemicals.
From now on you should reduce the consumption of processed meats and switch to non-processed fresh meat in order to maintain your health.
