What to do about those red meat chemicals

<span style="font-size: large;">    New research links a naturally occurring substance fou<span style="font-size: large;">nd in red meat and egg yo<span style="font-size: large;">l<span style="font-size: large;">ks<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>(choline), to heart diseas<span style="font-size: large;">e and heart attack.  The substance is che<span style="font-size: large;">mically altered when <span style="font-size: large;">stomach bacteria<span style="font-size: large;"> break it down.  The <span style="font-size: large;">substance becom<span style="font-size: large;">es trimethylamine<span style="font-size: large;">-N-<span style="font-size: large;">ox<span style="font-size: large;">ide or TMAO.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">   <span style="font-size: large;">Without going into the details of the rese<span style="font-size: large;">arch, which appears plaus<span style="font-size: large;">ible (likely to be true), people w<span style="font-size: large;">ith high levels of TMAO in their blood stream are<span style="font-size: large;"> more likely to have heart disease and adve<span style="font-size: large;">rse hea<span style="font-size: large;">lth outcomes related to i<span style="font-size: large;">t</span> (i.e., heart attack).  <span style="font-size: large;">This research adds to the conversation about red meat, saturated fat and adverse health.  Maybe it is the choline and <span style="font-size: large;">the metabolism of it and not saturated fat that causes <span style="font-size: large;">health</span> problems.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">   <span style="font-size: large;">Does this mean you cannot <span style="font-size: large;">eat <span style="font-size: large;">red meat or whole eggs?  NO.  <span style="font-size: large;">Does it mean that eating red meat <u>ca</u><span style="font-size: large;"><u>uses</u> heart disease?  NO<span style="font-size: large;">.  But it does show that the more red meat (<span style="font-size: large;">and eg<span style="font-size: large;">gs I suppose) that a person consumes the greater their risk of heart disease (as found when looking at average<span style="font-size: large;">s for</span> <span style="font-size: large;">whole gro<span style="font-size: large;">ups of people).  </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">    The reason I am blogging about it <span style="font-size: large;">today is <span style="font-size: large;">beca<span style="font-size: large;">use after thestudy was released, <span style="font-size: large;">drug companies started <span style="font-size: large;">working on a <span style="font-size: large;">pi<span style="font-size: large;">ll that would change the<span style="font-size: large;"> way cho<span style="font-size: large;">line is </span>di<span style="font-size: large;">gested<span style="font-size: large;"> or that would prevent T<span style="font-size: large;">MAO from accumulati<span style="font-size: large;">ng</span></span>.  In other words, the drug<span style="font-size: large;"> compan<span style="font-size: large;">ies immediately began working <span style="font-size: large;">on a way to <b>treat</b> a problem that could easi<span style="font-size: large;">ly be <b>pr</b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>evented</b>.  Eat LESS red meat for goodness sakes, pills are not the answer.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>

What to do about those red meat chemicals

    New research links a naturally occurring substance fou nd in red meat and egg yo l ks (choline), to heart diseas e and heart attack.  T...

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